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Paralysis from analysis is generally an achilles heel of professional services it seems, and amidst all the change and carnage of financial advice simply being decisive can be a winning difference for practice owners. Indecision…

Professional advisers have never been under more time pressure than they are today, and of all the things they could be investing time in the one which is easiest to defer is investing time in…

Creating great capital value for a professional services firm is usually one of the owners primary objectives as they more often than not see their business value as a critical part of their own financial…

Hiring an adviser to join the team is one of the biggest (and most expensive) steps that any adviser takes in growing their practice. It is expensive in financial terms, in time, and most importantly…

The first rule of business is “be profitable”, and that is a concept which appears to cause industry stakeholders some issues when it comes to judging financial advisory firms. That pisses me off to be…

Financial advisers really need to invest more into their practices. Now. More money, more thinking, more strategy….more leverage. Even those who have been investing probably need to invest more. For decades financial advisers have been…

The most frequent thing I see that prevents great practice growth and holds advisers back from developing their dream business is a lack of vision. I don’t mean “vision” in the namby-pamby buzz-word sense of…

The most profitable business to have in financial services is a bank. They know how to make money. They understand that the more you know about your customers the more business you can do with…