Better Business, Better Life – Issue 36

As we head into another week, I take great pleasure in sharing my curated articles, tips & tools in a short read that will hopefully give you a few ‘aha’ moments as well as some laughter or joy. Most of all I hope it gives you pragmatic inspiration & helps you on your journey to doing what you love, with people you love, making a huge difference, being compensated appropriately with time to pursue other passions – #TheEOSLife.

Here’s this week’s business tip, life hack & find of the week… Some of them are original, most are things I have come across in my weekly pursuit of self-improvement & living a better life, through creating a better business. And don’t forget the inspirational quote, which you can download as a wallpaper or lock screen for your phone.

As always, if you find great things that you’d like to share then feel free to email me for inclusion in one of my weekly newsletters. I’m always looking for new & exciting things to share each week. And if you think someone else would like to receive the newsletter in their inbox, directly from my inbox (no newsletter apps used here!) then please let me know – debra@debrachantry-taylor.com

So, is it all worth it?

Having done the MBA programme, I won’t say that I regret it, but it all honesty, it was an ego, self-confidence or maybe even vanity study. 

I thought I needed that piece of paper, because I was a young GM of a 220 staff business & I didn’t think I knew anything about business!  

Strangely it hadn’t stopped the board from offering me the job & I had already started turning the business around from a stagnant position, but somehow I thought people wouldn’t take me seriously or that maybe I was missing out on something. So off I went, back to University. 

And as this article says, having that piece of paper certainly won’t do you any harm, but I do concur that you really don’t need one to run a business either. 

“I’ve seen too many business owners think they’ll never have a profitable business without that piece of paper. I say they’re getting hung up on the wrong things. Instead of worrying about credentials for business cards and diplomas for office walls, I say focus on the business. What will your clients say to others about your business and about you? That’s worth far more,” says Al Moscardelli. 

And the EOS model actually teaches you much of what you would have learned in an MBA or at Business School anyway, just in a simpler, more pragmatic & quite frankly, more fun way! 

So, forget the possible divorce & let’s start running a great business!