From bonkers to brilliant. Discover how people who run businesses behave and learn what drives entrepreneurs and how are we affected by different situations, the decisions we make and the people with whom we work. This subject covers: leadership; communication; decision making; relationships; failure; psychology; conceptual thinking; buyer behaviour and more…
Reading should never be a guilty pleasure. But it can get that way if work pressures really grip and/or family demands mean those precious grains of free time are lost before sleep…
Our planet hosts 4 billion people who scrape by on less than $2 a day. Yet, perverse as it may sound, 24 hours in a day is not enough time for many people who work in industrialised economies. Lack of time rather than lack of money is an increasingly common complaint amongst the 100,000 million…
In my earliest hitchhiking days, any stopping vehicle was an opportunity to travel. The excitement of the moment put me in the car. Going faster by slowing down was a concept outside my impatient grasp…
A surprise meeting with Martin Clunes (he of Men Behaving Badly) at a ‘Dodgy’ Concert in the intimate ‘Bush Hall’ in London provided the light-bulb moment for this article…
To describe one of my first loves as a ‘big bag’ might be a little misleading, but it is quite true. Like any other 16 year-old, relationships were important to me. I wasn’t necessarily looking for love. But back then I had no idea how or why teenage love fires entrepreneurial spirit. Fast-forward. Thirty years…
Escaping the clutches of suburban Northampton by hitchhiking to west London might not be everyone’s idea of fun on a late Friday afternoon, but I was really up for it…
The Royal Society of the Arts (RSA) recently published a compelling article that carries an important message for entrepreneurs and people running micro businesses.
Stood by the roadside thumbing lifts was an empowering experience. Drivers who stopped validated what I was doing and thus hitchhiking became meaningful, worthwhile and rewarding. Whilst it wasn’t rocket science, I always thought carefully in advance about my appearance as well as how and where I stood. And I looked at the driver as…