--- title: SME business guides | MD business tools | leadership advice | Life At The Top (4) description: Life At The Top | The ultimate toolkit for MDs and CEOs. Practical guidance and advice from real-life business experiences for business leaders (4) --- ** # Vistage UK Blog ** Category: All categories Uncategorized Business Leading, Not Managing Getting Ahead Strategy Work/Life Balance Issues Employee Motivation Life At The Top Sales Vistage Members Speakers HR Economy Marketing Recruitment Vistage Change Management Being a new CEO Vistage Chair Exit Planning/Strategies Family Business Technology Vistage Staff Time Management Vistage Open Days Mental Health Brexit Negotiation Scaleup Business Cybersecurity Raising finance 43 Results [Work/Life Balance Issues](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/work-life-balance-issues) September 29, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1727090564-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/spend_more_time_out_office.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-great-ceos-work-less-to-achieve-more) ### [Why Great CEOs Often Work Less to Achieve More](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-great-ceos-work-less-to-achieve-more) We are endlessly told that hard work creates more profit. Work harder to create more profit in your new business. Does more work really mean more profit? Do we.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) September 3, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1554335558-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/efficient_boards.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/ask-yourself-this-question-is-your-board-fit-for-purpose) ### [Ask Yourself this Question: Is Your Board Fit for Purpose?](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/ask-yourself-this-question-is-your-board-fit-for-purpose) Boards of directors have always had bad press. As far back as the 18th century Adam Smith commented “…Being the managers rather of other people’s money than.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) September 1, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1545732235-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/5_year_plan_business_strategy.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/are-you-ready-to-ditch-your-5-year-plan) ### [Are You Ready to Ditch Your 5 Year Plan?](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/are-you-ready-to-ditch-your-5-year-plan) Where are you in your 5 plan? Almost there? Halfway through? Not even started? It’s both natural and practical to look ahead and plan for what is going to.. [Leading, Not Managing](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/leading-not-managing) August 15, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1463127592-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/turn_this_ship_around_marquet.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/turn-the-ship-around-a-book-for-frustrated-leaders) ### [Turn the Ship Around: A Book For Frustrated Leaders ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/turn-the-ship-around-a-book-for-frustrated-leaders) Our annual global spend on leadership development is estimated to be around £30bn. With this size of investment you would expect to see a demonstrable.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) August 14, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1457568737-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/running_your_own_business.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/technically-an-expert-but-you-cant-run-your-own-business) ### [Technically an Expert but You Can't Run Your Own Business!](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/technically-an-expert-but-you-cant-run-your-own-business) I meet plenty of so-called experts. Right now, I keep encountering SEO and SEM experts, digital consultants, social media experts, marketing agencies. They.. [Life At The Top](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/life-at-the-top) August 13, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1451897442-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/goal_setting.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-do-you-actually-plan-to-achieve-your-goals) ### [How do you actually plan to achieve your goals?](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-do-you-actually-plan-to-achieve-your-goals) Goals, benchmarks and targets. We’re all familiar with them and almost certainly use them in our professional and personal life to make improvements and to.. [Leading, Not Managing](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/leading-not-managing) August 7, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1395812152-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/conflict_resolution.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/conflict-resolution-in-4-simple-steps) ### [How to be Better at Conflict Resolution in 4 Simple Steps](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/conflict-resolution-in-4-simple-steps) As a leader, you’re going to face conflict. It comes with the territory. But before you try to deal with a conflict, you first need to stop and ask yourself.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) July 4, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1167626690-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/time_out_of_the_office.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-to-achieve-more-without-spending-even-longer-in-the-office) ### [How to Achieve More Without Spending Even Longer in the Office](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/how-to-achieve-more-without-spending-even-longer-in-the-office) How many hours have you worked this week? 40 hours? 60 hours? Rather not think about just how many hours? Nearly a third of UK professionals are now working 50.. [Business](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/business) June 18, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-1038787083-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/The_anti_retirement.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/the-reason-why-im-not-retiring-ever) ### [The Reason Why I’m Not Retiring- Ever](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/the-reason-why-im-not-retiring-ever) I have no intention of retiring. None whatsoever. Even though I have spotted a few grey hairs now (how come you never spot them unit they are fully grown – at.. [Leading, Not Managing](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/topic/leading-not-managing) May 28, 2014 [![](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/hs-fs/file-867246460-jpg/Blog_Images/pixabay_images/Leadership_development_and_ideas.jpg) ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-business-leaders-need-more-than-a-quick-fix) ### [Why Business Leaders Need More Than a "Quick Fix" ](https://blog.vistage.co.uk/why-business-leaders-need-more-than-a-quick-fix) ‘Directors’ of growing businesses are not the same as ‘owner-managers’. They have different profiles, different leadership styles, different needs, different.. 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