The Growth Toolkit - Simplifying Business Growth

12/06/2026

Action comes before growth. In business as in life.

09/06/2026

If you're reading this and things are tight right now, I want you to know I'm aware of the irony. You're reading an article about economic culling while wondering if you're the one for the chop.I'm not going to pretend that's a comfortable place to be, but I'm also not going to look away from it. No...

09/06/2026

https://www.thegrowthtoolkit.com/post/when-the-tide-goes-out

If you're reading this and things are tight right now, I want you to know I'm aware of the irony. You're reading an article about economic culling while wondering if you're the one for the chop.I'm not going to pretend that's a comfortable place to be, but I'm also not going to look away from it. No...

02/06/2026

How great businesses grow.

My clients grew their sales by an average of 22% last year. Their EBIT grew by 39.5%. Not one of them went backwards.I'm not telling you that to brag. I'm telling you that because last week we talked about how businesses die, and the answer was that they don't get unlucky. They get complicit. One sm...

27/05/2026

Why businesses die... a cautionary tale

Nobody's business dies in a day.New Zealand recorded 3,080 formal insolvency appointments in 2025. Liquidations, receiverships, voluntary administrations. The highest annual figure since 2010. The December quarter alone was the second worst since the turn of the millennium, surpassed only by the GFC...

12/05/2026

The truth about BHA's...

I probably don't need to tell you this, but running a business with any number of staff is no small feat. You’re juggling sales, profits, operations, and the big picture of growth. But how do you really know if your business is in tip-top shape? That’s where a solid business health assessment co...

05/05/2026

A slightly different take on failure.

Failure sucks. Do it anyway.

28/04/2026

More relevant than ever...

Everything. literally. Not a summary. Not a vague sense of how things are going. Not whatever their accountant tells them once a quarter. Everything. And they know it without having to look it up.This is one of the clearest lines I've seen in 25 years of coaching. The owners who struggle tend to hav...

21/04/2026

FREE Managing People Tool....

A five-minute team tool that gives every person in your business crystal-clear focus on what they're working toward and why it matters. Free download. Stop assuming your team knows what matters. Four questions. Four pieces of paper. One focused team. Better Results.

13/04/2026

Congrats to client who’s doubled their sales in three months
(from $60k/mth)
Superb!