Straight-talking tips and advice on a wide range of business and entrepreneurship topics from an experienced expert.
It intrigues me that I’ve never found a course focusing on effective listening. Whilst we know listening is one of the most important skills to acquire, many of us also recognise our inability to listen well…
Reaching for my camera (rather than my daughter’s foot) as Megan falls from a Chicago skyscraper, suggests an untruth is perhaps at play…
Recent visits to the Far East as well as African continent have demonstrated that hitchhiking remains a popular means of transport. But whilst dozens of people with outstretched thumbs lined my route from Uhmslanga to Durban, it was the mothers with babes on their backs, risking life and limb in the car-frenzied city of Jakarta,…
By accident, I recently discovered a powerful and uplifting film about global social entrepreneurship. Concerned I’d never heard about this brilliantly-made & influential production (See 1. Who Cares?), I decided to search the web to uncover other film treasures all entrepreneurs should find. What I found may stagger you…
Following a short interview at Cumbria’s ‘Wasdale Head Inn‘ I secured my first-ever paid job in 1984 as a kitchen porter. Fresh out of school, my new hotel home was at the end of a long valley, 8 miles from the nearest shop and another 3 to the nearest town. And that’s where I found…
Building the SimVenture brand has involved little hitchhiking but much globe-trotting over the last decade. In this time, exporting has become a key revenue stream for our company. Over 35% of all sales are now sourced from overseas. So what’s been learnt and how can you start exporting and build your business? Here are my…
Delight can turn to frustration when an excellent new recruit, who is just settling into the post, decides to accept a job offer elsewhere. But occasionally, you know they’ve made the right decision…
“A torch? “No, you don’t need one. “The night is not dark!” Frank Dawson, the ‘pioneering outdoor entrepreneur’ and head of centre, spoke with calm assertion to 10 newly acquainted teenagers. Being 10pm, the group was visibly alarmed. None had anticipated that their sensible request for light (ahead of their night walk through an ancient…