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You are on your camping holiday. You're cooking over a barbeque. Let's say, you're putting on the burgers. Now, do you ever think to yourself, what are the ingredients that make up these burgers?

We have all seen on the packets of burgers the list of E numbers and preservatives. Also do you ever wonder how old and how good is the quality of the meat?

What better way of knowing the quality of the meat than to make the burgers fresh yourself. That way you know they are made from the freshest meat. Of course there will be no artificial colors or preservatives. They'll be packed with all the proteins and vitamins that fresh meat provides.

Here is a quick and simple recipe for lamb patties (small burgers) using fresh lean minced lamb. This is accompanied with a fresh and tasty mint salad inside a wonderful wholemeal Pita pocket.

Ingredients: Serves 4

1Kg fresh lean minced lamb
60g finely chopped fresh parsley
1 medium onion finely chopped
25g finely chopped fresh mint
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 egg
Salt and pepper

Mint Salad

4 small ripe tomatoes
20g whole fresh mint leaves
1 small red onion finely sliced
1 tablespoon of olive oil
2 tablespoons of lemon juice

Method

Place the lamb, parsley, mint, onion, garlic and egg into a large bowl. Knead all the ingredients together while adding salt and pepper for seasoning. The use of the egg is to bind the ingredients together while adding extra protein and vitamins to the meal.

Shape the mixture into eight small patties and leave until you have made the mint salad. To make the Mint Salad first slice the tomatoes into thin rings. Place them in a bowl along with the sliced red onion, whole mint leaves, olive oil and lemon juice. Using a spatula or large spoon gently turn over the salad. Add salt and pepper for seasoning at the same time. Stop when the salad is evenly coated with the olive oil and lemon juice.

Once the salad is prepared brush on the patties a little olive oil both sides to stop them sticking to the hot barbeque grill. Place the patties on the barbeque and cook on each side for approximately 3-4 minutes. Make sure there is a nice brown crust on the bottom before you turn. Otherwise it may fall apart.

Put the wholemeal Pita breads on the barbeque only for a few seconds to brown both sides. Using wholemeal Pitas gives the meal an extra higher fibre content than using ordinary white pitas. Once browned take off the pitas and cut in half. Open them up and place inside them a little salad. Add a lamb pattie and then a little more salad.

If you like natural yogurt, it is a great compliment as a dressing. It is also good for your digestive system because natural yogurt has good bacterial properties. This cooking recipe is rich in nutrients. It has protein, vitamins, iron, minerals and good bacteria for the digestive system. A truly wholesome meal for the whole family. Enjoy.

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If you are thinking about setting up a company or other type of enterprise it will probably fail within three years, cause you a lot of stress and cost you a lot of money.

In most countries more than eighty per cent of new enterprises fail within three years with a very high proportion lasting less than one year.

The causes of failure have been studied by large numbers of academics, consultants and government employees. A lot of reports have been produced analyzing the reasons why so many enterprises fail and identifying possible lessons to learn from the survivors.

The main reason for failure is incompetence.

Just because you find something interesting does not mean other people will find it interesting.

Just because you think something has a certain value does not mean anyone else will agree with you.

If other people cannot understand just how brilliant your idea is you have not communicated your idea properly - do not blame them, you have a communications problem.

So, how do you avoid the pitfalls of incompetence and communicate in a manner that is not only understood but also motivates other people to provide assistance?

Corporate planning is a well established discipline in large organizations. It deals primarily with long-term strategic matters. It has its own methodology and is very different from normal business planning. A typical business plan considers horizons of typically three or five years. A corporate plan will often have a horizon twice that of the business plan.

The majority of small and medium sized enterprises do not carry out corporate planning and do not think strategically. The owners and directors of most small and medium size enterprises believe that the tactical planning that they carry out amounts to strategic planning. This belief is a major contributor to the very high failure rate of small and medium size enterprises during their first three years of existence.

Concentration on day to day management and tactical planning leaves the new enterprise vulnerable to changes in market conditions, reactions of competitors, delays by key customers and delays in the overall startup project.

Failure to consider values, vision and mission can contribute significant stress during the initial periods of rapid growth or startup problems. As additional personnel join the enterprise the culture of the organization quite often changes. If the organization's values, vision and mission have not been clearly articulated, the developing culture may lead the organization off at a tangent that the founders had never intended.

Sometimes the founding owners end up in conflict as they each try to take the enterprise in different directions. This can be particularly dangerous if the founding owners have key skills or facilities which, if they remove them, can cause the business to fail. If the business direction of the enterprise conflicts with the values of one of the founders there are bound to be problems.

The solution is relatively straightforward but is a process followed by few start up enterprises. The following steps should be followed:-

1. Elicit the values of each of the key people involved in the enterprise. Any conflicts at this stage must be resolved and, if the differences cannot be reconciled, a methodology of avoiding confrontation must be determined. If this is not possible it is dangerous to proceed further without a significant risk of failure.

2. Based on the values determine the vision of the enterprise. This needs to be meaningful and inspirational, maybe even a bit frightening. Too many vision statements are meaningless and fail to inspire resulting in alternative, informal visions really driving the enterprise.

Do not forget - your enterprise is unlikely to ever exceed your vision so - think big.

If you want to know if your vision statement means anything give a copy to any potential recruit and ask them to explain what they think it means - the response can be very interesting.

3. Once the values and vision have been articulated the next stage is the mission statement.

Why should your enterprise exist, what does it do?

Does it do anything of any real use or is it just a method of obtaining money?

If it ceased to exist would any of your customers miss it?

What strategies are you going to use in order to achieve your vision?

This represents only the initial stages of corporate planning and the use of corporate strategy. However, if you miss this stage you will not produce a coherent strategy and will not have clearly defined corporate goals.

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