by Greg Smith | Dec 3, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Farmers worries – Up horn, down corn? Of farmers’ worries we can safely claim to have a better understanding than most. Farming is a classic example of home, business and personal life intersecting, and any arable farmer who is...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Failure, Fault and Blame Ah, this old hobby horse. If only more people rode it (dodgy metaphor, but let it go). Mostly, the meanings and values seem to be misunderstood. Failure means non-occurrence, lack of success, objective unachieved, the...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Father Brown G.K. Chesterton’s character Father Brown was inclined to say “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution; it is that they can’t see the problem”. Gosh, isn’t that so often what humans do?...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business
Life Consultants ARTICLES Keeping staff informed. If not, why not? If you’re an employee, do you know what’s going on? If you’re a manager, do you share with your team? If a business is not doing well, one of the best ways to accelerate its demise is...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business
Life Consultants ARTICLES Your business plan If you would appreciate an opinion on your business plan, do consider carefully as to who is likely to be your best consigliere and who might not be quite the ticket, even if they are good chums. For example, sometimes...
by Greg Smith | Nov 26, 2025 | Articles, Business, Personal
Life Consultants ARTICLES Problem for the Social Prescriber Social prescribing became part of national NHS policy in 2019 but only quite recently have professional practitioners appeared in general practice. It’s a good wheeze – the principle being that...
