Keeping your business on track

True Purpose Limited, UK company no. 09847702

“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be

without one, be without the strategy.” General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

Running a business is hard enough, but all too often personal challenges and relationship issues

make it even tougher. It’s no good having great strategy, great products and services, or even great

profits, if key people are unsettled and/or they’re not getting on with each other. Little irritations

and niggles (molehills) easily get out of hand (they become mountains). People lose perspective,

and then they start to lose the plot. Energy is wasted on infighting rather than serving customers,

beating the competition, and wrestling with the challenges of the ever changing marketplace.

The answer? Engage an experienced outsider who can restore calm, objectivity, enjoyment and

team spirit to your business. A person who shows neither fear nor favour, who is willing and able to

listen carefully, and confront difficult issues constructively with those involved. A people person

who enjoys making others happier and more successful by mentoring and supporting them. An

experienced business leader who’s been through good and bad times, who’s made mistakes, learned

from them, and painstakingly improved their own performance over the years. A creative, dynamic,

values-driven individual who’ll bring a new dimension, who’ll help you solve difficult problems and

make better progress towards your personal and business goals. Someone who is widely trusted,

liked and respected, who has a first class network of reliable experts whom they can call upon if

necessary to help you solve specific problems.

In a nutshell, you need a person who can help realign your team with your business’s true purpose.

My name is Mark Ashton, and I am that person. Listen to these testimonials:

"It's a pleasure doing LIFE with you... I am slowly filling my business with the right DNA to do something extraordinary and you are exemplary." "When you pick the people in life that you would have with you in the trenches, Mark would undoubtedly be on my list." “If you have a knotty business problem stopping you getting the true value out of your customers and business contact this guy....NOW!" "I hire you to stop me making management errors and to help fix those I do make." "Without you this company wouldn't still exist. Even if it did I wouldn't still be running it." I am an entrepreneur with over 25 years’ rich experience in sales and senior management roles. I’ve

built, led, supported, advised, and turned businesses around, in the UK, USA, and continental

Europe. I’ve experienced many of the common challenges that business leaders and owners face.

I’ve formed strong, clear views about how to create enduring success and avoid common business

problems, using my own insights along with the extensive available research into the tried and

tested, winning principles of Top 1% businesses.

These simple, yet profound principles are common sense for anyone willing to listen and patiently

apply them. I can help you do it and take your game to the next level.

What are you waiting for?! Call me on 07815 881726, or email mwnashton@gmail.com.

Keeping your business on track

True Purpose Limited, UK company no. 09847702

Full testimonial

"I have known Mark for a number of years now and most recently over the past year have

had the pleasure of working with him as my mentor. During that time he has challenged

and developed me hugely. His relationship-focused approach to business and his

emotional intelligence are a breath of fresh air to someone from an industry which is

becoming increasingly automated.

Recently I came across the story of Charles Steinmetz’s encounter with a Ford plant in

Michigan (bear with me – this IS going somewhere). Steinmetz, who worked as an

electrical engineer for General Electric in the early 20th century, was summoned to the

Ford plant, whose electrical engineers couldn’t solve some problems they were having

with a generator. Upon arriving, Steinmetz rejected all assistance and asked only for a

notebook, pencil and cot. He listened to the generator and scribbled computations on the

notepad for two straight days and nights. On the second night, he asked for a ladder,

climbed up the generator and made a chalk mark on its side. Then he told Ford’s sceptical

engineers to remove a plate at the mark and replace sixteen windings from the field coil.

They did, and the generator performed to perfection.

Henry Ford was thrilled until he got an invoice from General Electric in the amount of

$10,000. Ford acknowledged Steinmetz’s success but balked at the figure. He asked for an

itemized bill.

Steinmetz responded personally to Ford’s request with the following:

Making chalk mark on generator $1.

Knowing where to make mark $9,999.

Ford paid the bill.

Let me say emphatically that this is not a comment on Mark’s billing practices, far from it.

I have found there to be very few individuals that you encounter in this world who “Know

where to make the mark” – Mark Ashton is one of these people. A creative problem solver,

a strategic thinker and a uniquely gifted leader.

To put it simply I cannot recommend Mark highly enough - you need what this man has!"