In the 1970s, I studied at Queen Mary College, part of London University, in the impoverished East End borough of Tower Hamlets. I...

What's the risk=reward ratio?

Putting your foot in the water is the only way to learn

Young and Old together

Knowing the risks of your decisions

One reads a lot of start-up literature and interviews, and they almost all talk a lot about ‘passion’. I am not sure either is very...

One of the most well-known teachers and writers on Zen Buddhism was Shunryu Suzuki. He wrote an excellent book called Zen Mind, Beginners...

Lots of people write about starting a business. Few talk about how rare and difficult it is to exit one profitably. According to U.K....

Having started and managed a business that went through more than one phase of rapid growth, I recently read a short Zen story that...

It's that time of year again when coaches and others can't resist discussing plans and goals for the new year. Humans are programmed to...

Many start-up founders seem to have a rather unrealistic view of business. Business is messy and full of surprises needing tough...

I get tired of reading so many coaches and mentors praising Grit. In my experience, relentless persistence often means ignoring the...

How many times have I heard the Classic coaching question 'What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail?' Far too many, in my not...

Many entrepreneurs and senior executives ask me why they should consider having a business mentor and how doing so differs from a...

No, it's not a typo and a blog about Star Trek but rather a metaphor. Spacs (Special Purpose Acquisition Companies) are currently being...

As the CEO of an SME, I often wonder what I was supposed to be doing. I had been very successful at hiring people better than me in...

I am amazed at the number of small and medium-sized businesses that do not have written business plans. (It doesn’t have to be a...

Relationships used to mean a lot in business. However, following the 1981 recession (the first white-collar recession) and the...