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One of my consulting clients recently asked me, "What is the leading cause of business failure or organisational collapse?  Research by many prestigious institutions like Dunn & Bradstreet show that the leading cause of organisational failure is bad cashflow management. Even hard work, sincerity, passion, talent, technology, great products, good markets etc. cannot save an organisation which has poor cashflow management. Sales is Vanity, Profit is Sanity, Cashflow is Vitality. __________________________________________________ What is cashflow? Simply explained it is the amount of cash that actually flows in and out through the accounts of a business. It represents the liquidity of funds within a business and in a sense the fuel that allows the business to keep running. _______________________________ Tiny or very large, more than 85% of all enterprises that fail globally, do so because they were unable to manage cashflows effectively. ...

Overstocked with a large supply of men’s spring and winter coats,  a clothier in Copenhagen, Denmark, adopted a unique sales  scheme.  He erected a scaffolding around his store building and  completely covered it from roof to sidewalk with more than a  thousand overcoats.  The novel display attracted prospective  customers in such droves that police were summoned.  Although  the police ordered the proprietor to remove the display, he  succeeded in selling all the overcoats, 1936

How to recruit the right person for the job? Put about 100 bricks in some particular   order in a closed room with an open window. Then send in 2 or 3 candidates at a time into  the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back  after 6 hours and then analyze  the situation. If they are counting the  bricks,  Put them in the accounts  department.    If they are recounting them..  put them in auditing  . If they have messed up the  whole place with the bricks, put them in engineering. If they are arranging the b ricks in some strange order..  Put them in planning.    If they are throwing the  bricks at each other,   Put them in operations  . If they are sleeping,  put them in security.   If they have broken the bricks  into pieces.  Put them in information  Technology.  If they are sitting idle. Put them in human res...