Top Ten Directors Warning Signs

1. Fire fighting - you don't get your work done because of lack of focus.
   
   
2. Lack of information or wrong information and concentrating on non-essential issues.
   
   
3. "Compartmentalising" problems in other words do you deal with one creditor problem and ignore others.
   
   
4. Do you blame the:
   4.1. Bank;
   4.2. Creditors;
   4.3. Debtors;
   4.4. Accountants;
   4.5. Advisors;
   4.6. Everyone but YOU?
   
   
5. You don't have a business plan.
   
   
6. You don't have regular team, management and board meetings.
   
   
7. You don't like changes.
   
   
8. Directors are taking big salaries and expenses.
   
   
9. You have an overdrawn director's current account.
   
   
10. You think that one more sale, one more contract, one big customer payment will solve the problem? (It won't).

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