by Phil Jones | Updated 7 Jul, 2017 | Culture of performance, Thought provokers
Human Capital: The disenfranchisement of employees For a while now, the phrase “Human Capital” has replaced “Human Resources” as the buzz phrase to refer to people in an organisation. I suspect the well-intentioned people within the “job...
by Phil Jones | Updated 19 Jul, 2018 | Thought provokers
“Work-Life balance”: A dangerous way to think about the issue. You hear it all over the place nowadays. “I need a better work-life balance”. “People have their work-life balance wrong”.”You need to improve your work-life...
by Phil Jones | Updated 20 Jul, 2018 | Thought provokers
Several times recently I have been in discussions about company valuation and, in each case, the topic has moved to earnings multiples. If I have this sort of company, then it is worth/values on 1x, 3x, 10x whatever earnings, revenue, EBIT, etc. You know the...
by Phil Jones | Updated 22 Jul, 2018 | Culture of performance, Thought provokers
Is your business plan realistic? Or is is just satisfying the accountants? Or is there a deeper cultural issue in how some are taught to write business plans? The curious case of the fudged business plan My son came home from his sixth form studies last week and told...