Better Business: Advice for advisers

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Tiger Woods strikes a perfect ball yet still employs a coach, so how can advisers ensure they continue to improve? FP Advance chief executive Brett Davidson says friends, family and even clients can help...

"Why is it that the high achievers continue to seek input from others? Tiger Woods has a coach. Chris Hoy won gold at the Olympics, yet still trains hard and seeks new ways to ply his trade. You would think that once you were so good at what you did you could stop seeking external input, but that is not the case. With your business it is just the same; it always remains a work in progress. So what do the high-performance, high-profit practices do that the others don't? They create a formal process for seeking regular external input into every aspect of their business and that could come ...

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