Nicholas Bate

Brilliant at the Basics of Business (v2) 100, 79

Your people cannot deliver unless they have clear goals. But equally they cannot deliver of their best if they are anxious, stressed, exhausted. Great leadership is about that balance.

Fast-Track with The Book

B@BofBiz One talk normally

B@BofBiz Two first impressions

B@BofBiz Three: make price the smallest issue

B@BofBiz Four: your brand reality

B@BofBiz Five: success can destroy you

B@BofBiz Six if you are serious, then 0825 not 0832

B@BofBiz Seven forget 'closing' techniques

B@BofBiz Eight your business isn't special

B@Bof Biz Nine one 3 x 5 card

B@Bof Biz Ten PPT slides: are they real?

B@Bof Biz Eleven Stop wishing, start selling

B@BofBiz Twelve Don't Walk By

B@BofBiz Thirteen Are you excited about your business?

B@BofBiz Fourteen Quarter to quarter: no limping.

B@BofBiz: Fifteen Agility

B@BofBiz; Sixteen No 'about'

B@BofBiz: Seventeen Train Your People.

B@BofBiz: Eighteen Planning is good. But it isn't reality.

B@BofBiz: Nineteen Everybody Sells

B@BofBiz Twenty Simply Be Better

B@BofBiz Twenty One Watch The Numbers

B@BofBiz Twenty Two Price To Sleep Well

B@BofBiz Twenty Three Now. Only now. Have that coffee.

B@BofBiz Twenty Four Some are just messers. Let them go.

B@BofBiz Twenty Five Don't Wait for luck

B@BofBiz Twenty Six Is The Customer Always Right?

B@BofBiz: Twenty Seven What's with the rivalry, huh?

B@BofBiz: Twenty Eight Do Not Set Price Quickly

B@BofBiz: Twenty Nine Know Where You Make Your Money

B@BofBiz: Thirty Keep it Lean, Mean and Frugal

B@BofBiz: Thirty One: Get Closer

B@BofBIz: Thirty Two: Stay Alert

B@BofBiz: Thirty Three: Get skilful

B@BofBiz: Thirty Four: What would you do differently?

B@BofBiz: Thirty Five: What are you reading?

B@BofBiz: Thirty Six: Plan-Do-Review

B@BofBiz: ThirtySeven: Not Just KPIs

B@BofBiz: ThirtyEight: Not Just Job Title

B@BofBiz: ThirtyNine: Don't Love Every Customer

B@BofBiz: Forty: Respect the Relationship

B@BofBiz: FortyOne: Get to the Airport Early

B@BofBiz: FortyTwo: Write Better Notes.

B@BofBiz: FortyThree: Pure Gold for Performance Improvement.

B@BofBiz: FortyFour: Get On With It

B@BofBiz: FortyFive: Have A Plan

B@BofBiz: FortySix: Make it Easy

B@BofBiz: FortySeven: Give it a Go

B@BofBiz: FortyEight: Don't Mess About

B@BofBiz: FortyNine: Ask

B@BofBiz: Fifty: SWOT

B@BofBiz: FiftyOne: Delegation

B@BofBiz: FiftyTwo: Systems

B@BofBiz: FiftyThree: Challenges

B@BofBiz: FiftyFour: Leap don't Copy

B@BofBiz: FiftyFive: Review any time.

B@BofBiz: FiftySix: Expenses

B@BofBiz:FiftySeven: the Annual Conference

B@BofBiz:FiftyEight: It's Not About Time

B@BofBiz: FiftyNine: Communicate

B@BofBiz: Sixty: Career Path

B@BofBiz: SixtyOne: Check the Waste

B@BofBiz: SixtyTwo: The Offering

B@BofBiz: SixtyThree: Hit The Numbers

B@BofBiz: SixtyFour: Quality must be a given

B@BofBiz: SixtyFive: Sell First; Then Negotiate.

B@BofBiz: SixtySix: What's The True Story?

B@BofBiz: SixtySeven: What Creates Culture?

B@BofBiz: SixtyEight: Want & Love

B@BofBiz: SixtyNine: Energy

B@BofBiz: Seventy: Copy. And improve.

B@BofBiz: SeventyOne: Regularly Review

B@BofBiz: SeventyTwo: Get rid of the waste.

B@BofBiz: SeventyThree: The problem

B@BofBiz: SeventyFour: Walk The Firm

B@BofBiz: SeventyFive: Don't Rush Recruitment

B@BofBiz: SeventySix: Systems Thinking.

B@BofBiz: SeventySix: Be Fast to Act & Implement

B@BofBiz: SeventySeven: Review

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Why We Love The Beatles (v2) 71 of 100:

There are so many gorgeous iconic representations of The Beatles. The group on stage with John and Paul tight around the microphone and Ringo perched on high. A 'grown-up' Fab Four on a Zebra crossing. Matching moustaches in the Sgt Pepper era. Swirling cigarette smoke at a press conference and Paul looking very jet-lagged or maybe he's just...

And then there are those early 'mop-top' hair-cuts. It is often said that Astrid Kercher designed them which she has always said is daft: 'it's simply what German boys wore' she said. And as always with The Lads , in particular John and Paul at this stage, they were brilliant at copying and improving. Within months it had become another aspect of one of the planet's fastest growing brands but in a world which was so much simpler that nobody used phrases like that.

It's another reason we love The Beatles.

The Back-Story

Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do

7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney

12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon

17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo

21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.

24: Simply Different

25: A Time to Think

26: Revolver

27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

28: The B Side