Richard Knight

Running your own business requires a totally different level of thinking. When you work for someone else, other people are generally making decisions for you and you don’t need to think – or at least not as much. I am always amazed at how few people in an employee situation seem to be incapable of […]

Lets look at the impact of this statement, and we will all have heard the comment, “Do as I tell you” from our parents when we were kids. I am sure you – as well as me – would have latched on a bit more to this as we grew up, seeing our parents  telling

I have thought a lot about this article since the beginning of November and it has taken me 5 weeks to put it together. I wanted to make sure I included everything, worded it properly and covered every angle as much as possible. As a business owner of 40 years, I wanted to comment from

You are totally responsible for where you are in life today. You all have choices – every day of your lives – and the choices you have made in the past is why you are where you are today. Where you will be tomorrow will be down to the choices you make today. So choose

Having been in business since 1982 and starting to understand the power of association since that time, it still amazes me how few people really understand what networking is about and how effective it can be for us if we do it right.  As the late, great Zig Ziglar says, “If we help others get

I am dedicating this article to my great friend and business colleague Phil Strachan, the best brand specialist I have ever met in my 40 years of business ownership. Phil always talks about the importance of your business standing out from the crowd and not being just A N other whatever it is you do.

Adapting and evolving is part of life. Adapting in business is no different. Being responsive to change is vitally important to continued success. If you are standing still and still doing the same things this week, month or year that you were doing last year, then you are probably going backwards. If what you have

“I can’t do that because I am too busy”. “I won’t be able to make that event because I have too much work on”. I really hope those of you reading this article don’t use these excuses and so many others that I have heard over the last 40 years of being in business. Yes

The inspiration for this article came from a video I watched this week from one of the top business coaches in the USA. We can never think we know everything, as that is the time we start going backwards. The video I watched was frightening in one respect but packed with good information to help

While watching a CIA thriller on Netflix over the weekend a message was mentioned by one of the actors – “Be the hero of your own story” and it gave me a topic for this week’s article. It’s amazing sometimes where inspiration comes from. I am sure many of you have similar inspirations.  So what