Simple ideas are often the best, says Bob Young, managing director of Capital Home Loans

In my time as managing director of various businesses, I have come to the conclusion that, a) managing a business is not rocket science, and b) there is far too much ‘BS’ shovelled around by some authors/speakers/gurus, who would like us all to believe there is only one way (their way) to business success and that the most successful firms have bought into the ‘management philosophy’ they are espousing.

We now have a whole management-based industry with more models than Airfix, where experts treat the job of managing as an intellectual exercise when in fact, if you manage anything or anyone you will often instinctively know how to go about it. This is something called ‘common sense’ and to quote my dear old gran, “common sense ain’t common.”” In my experience this is often forgotten when people get down to the nitty gritty of running a business.