Month: February 2025

Change consequences

A few decades ago, we were ‘played’ as tourists at an Edinburgh restaurant during the Festival. Steve, our knowledgeable host, ordered a specific bottle of wine. When the waiter returned, he said that wine was not available but suggested a ‘similar’ one. As a canny diner, Steve asked the price,

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Confidence with contracts

Simpler contracts have loads of benefits and will reduce admin time, minimise quibbling, manage expectations, safeguard your business, speed up the process of finalising a deal, enhance trust, avoid disputes and so on. This post brings together some videos which will help give you more confidence with your contracts. Alternatively,

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Effective change process

A few years ago, we took our kids to Paris and promised them a trip up the Eiffel Tower. Our timing could not have been worse… it was mother’s day and the Tower was rammed. As the queues for the lifts were extensive, and we’d have ended waiting for hours,

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Benefits of simplicity

A wide variety of global corporates are creating simpler contracts – to speed up transactions and to enable them to do business with SMEs. Many start-ups, innovators and niche specialists simply cannot afford the time/energy/money to review long complex contracts. The problem Many of the issues related to complex contracts are

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