As a business leader, every season seems to bring a new challenge. Once we overcome one, another appears. A difficult staff issue is resolved… then product issues surface. A product stabilises… then sales slow. We hit a sales milestone… only to realise profitability still needs work.
Tag: leadership
Losing the Tender, Keeping the Lessons
Last month I went through one of the worst setbacks in my professional life. We were bidding for a major tender—a supply contract that would have secured business for the next two to three years. We had run the numbers, factored in historical data, and made what I believed to be a calculated pricing strategy.
But we were wrong.
The 4Fs that Keep Me Grounded
There was a time when I believed life would feel complete once I had “arrived”—whatever that meant. Maybe it was achieving career success, earning financial stability, or crossing the finish line of a 100km race.