Business risks are a consequence of changing markets, availability of skills and regulation. The failure of a contract or business relationship is often a consequence of those factors.

Sustainable business is founded on good relationships, profitable contracts and repeat business.

Projects either fail or disappoint because people don’t spot or act on the early signs of a dispute. Good leaders don’t ignore the signs and act swiftly to engage with the emerging risks.

Do you know what your customers and suppliers ‘value’? Do you share the same values, beliefs and assumptions?

Restructuring is not always about cutting headcount. It can be about integrating technology, appropriate risk sharing, processes and procedures, and the structure of the business.

Strategy is often conflated with planning. It is not the same thing.

Strategy is Where?, Why? and What?.

Planning is Who? and When?

Workplace and employment disputes are time consuming, stressful and always expensive. Mediation can get relationships back on track and where the fit is clearly not working for either party, it can plot a course for agreed change.