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10/11/2026

Here's a question I've been thinking about as we get closer to the end of the year.

If the next 90 days in your business are much like the last 90, will you be happy with where things end up?

Maybe things are going well.

Or maybe there's something you've been meaning to change for months.

A recurring problem.

Something your team needs to take more ownership of.

An improvement to sales, margins or cash flow.

The day-to-day can make it difficult to give those things proper attention.

But sometimes the most useful thing an owner can do is step away and decide what they really want to be different.

What's one thing you'd like to see improve in your business over the next 90 days?

05/11/2026

What will be different in 90 days?

04/11/2026

When did you last work on your business?

21/10/2026

Ever notice how one unfinished job can create work for three or four other people?

A customer follows up.

Someone else has to rearrange their day.

The manager starts chasing.

The owner gets involved.

And suddenly a relatively small task has become everybody's problem.

Sometimes delays are unavoidable.

But it's worth asking how much time gets lost because work isn't completed, or because nobody knew it was falling behind.

Good follow-through doesn't just get things done.

It makes the whole business easier to run.

What's one thing that regularly gets delayed in your business and creates headaches for everyone else?

01/10/2026

Someone made a great observation in a business session last week.

They described the difference between the owner's:

$100 decisions

and

$10,000 decisions.

It got me thinking.

How much of an owner's day gets consumed by small decisions that somebody else should really be making?

Can we buy this?

What should we do here?

Can I tell the customer yes?

Who's handling that?

None takes very long.

But add them together and suddenly the owner has very little time left for the bigger decisions only they can make.

Here's an interesting question:

How many $100 decisions are still finding their way to you every week?

18/09/2026

When I talk about helping businesses gain more control, I don't mean the owner controlling everything.

Quite the opposite.

Real control looks more like:

People knowing what's expected.

Knowing what they can decide.

Having the information they need.

Problems being picked up early.

And the business continuing to work without the owner having to watch everything.

Good structure shouldn't restrict good people.

It should give them confidence to get on with the job.

That's a big part of what **Chaos → Control™** means to me.

Where would a little more clarity help someone in your business take more ownership?

16/09/2026

Here's something worth thinking about.

If you keep solving the same problem...

have you actually solved it?

Something gets missed.

We fix it.

Someone makes a mistake.

We sort it out.

A decision doesn't happen.

The owner steps in.

Then a few weeks later, we're dealing with something remarkably similar again.

At that point, the better question might be:

"Why does this keep happening?"

Sometimes the recurring problem is simply the symptom.

The real opportunity is fixing what's creating it.

What's one problem in your business that seems to keep coming back?

15/09/2026

Most business problems don't suddenly appear.

Usually there are little warning signs first.

A customer has to chase something.

The same mistake happens again.

Someone doesn't quite know who's responsible.

The owner gets pulled into another decision.

None of those things seems particularly serious on its own.

The problem is when we get used to them.

They become:

"That's just how we do things."

Sometimes the things we've learned to tolerate are exactly the things we should be paying attention to.

A useful question for this week:

What's happening repeatedly in your business that you've almost stopped noticing?

13/09/2026

Here's a question worth asking at your next team meeting:

"What evidence would prove this is working?"

If we're improving customer service, what should customers notice?

If we're improving accountability, what should people actually be doing differently?

If we're trying to reduce the owner's workload, what should stop reaching their desk?

It doesn't always need to be a complicated KPI or dashboard.

Sometimes the evidence can be very simple.

The important thing is that everyone understands what 'better' looks like.

Because it's difficult to manage improvement if nobody can tell whether it's happening.

What's one improvement in your business that you could make more visible?

10/09/2026

"We've done the training."

Great.

But did performance improve?

"We introduced a checklist."

Good.

But are there fewer mistakes?

"We've started having weekly meetings."

Excellent.

But are decisions and follow-up getting better?

Completing the action matters.

But it's only half the story.

A question I've found really useful is:

"What should become different if this actually works?"

Then look for the evidence.

Otherwise, it's very easy to tick something off the list without knowing whether it made any real difference.

What's something you've recently changed in your business that would be worth checking the result of?

Address

Hamilton
3214

Telephone

+64275275007

Website

https://malcolmferguson.trustedadvisor.co.nz/

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