Peter Harrington – Page 4 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to Entrepreneurship

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Embedding Negotiation Skills
ByPeter Harrington February 23, 2018September 18, 2021

Embedding negotiation skills, so people understand how to apply learning, is best achieved through a combination of theory and repeated practice. Principles underpinning good negotiation have not changed much over time. But, whilst people may remember what they have read and been told to do, they are typically less aware of their own behaviour and…

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University Pressure Cooker
ByPeter Harrington February 2, 2018June 12, 2020

For 12 years, and as part of my role at VSL, I’ve been talking with and meeting academics. In total, I’ve phoned, ‘Skyped’, ‘Hungout’ with and/or met at least 10 different people each week for 47 weeks of every year. When you do the maths, that’s over 5,500 conversations. So what’s been learnt?

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Origins of Human Creativity Revealed
ByPeter Harrington October 19, 2017September 18, 2018

Getting to the origins of human creativity is complicated, but earlier this month I gained some fascinating insights when attending another RSA packed-house presentation in London. This event was delivered by David Eagleman (aka Rockstar of Neuroscience) and his co-author, Anthony Brandt. Entitled, ‘What is Creativity’, the 60-minute delivery was slick, revealing (did you know…

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Bedroom Business becomes Big Business
ByPeter Harrington September 25, 2017May 3, 2020

Steve Jobs launched Apple from a garage. Mark Zuckerberg’s entrepreneurial journey with Facebook began in a university dormitory. Over 500,000 new UK firms are created each year and many start life as a bedroom business. Given the financial pressures faced by young people, is it any surprise that bedroom entrepreneurship is growing in popularity? There’s…

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Teach & Defeat Deafening Silence
ByPeter Harrington February 28, 2017May 27, 2020

Teaching budding entrepreneurs about finance, marketing and business plans etc. is commonplace. But why is it so many courses forget to include a fundamental issue virtually all start-ups face?

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Flipping Classrooms with Romano Zavaroni
ByPeter Harrington January 29, 2017October 15, 2018

Following graduation in 1989 I rented a tiny, cell-like office in York for £17 a month. My entrepreneurial career had started. But getting to that point (and years later being able to create and grow a company on a global stage) was the result of one man’s inspiration and devotion to flipping classrooms.

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Have You Been Mis-sold Christmas?
ByPeter Harrington December 21, 2016December 19, 2018

Hold onto to your festive hats folks. It’s emerging billions of people worldwide may have been mis-sold Christmas. You may be affected. Mis-sold Christmas – what, more porky pies? Stories about flying reindeer, sacks of presents disappearing down chimneys and a white-bearded jolly soul riding a sky-high sleigh, may, just may, contain a whiff of…

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My Biggest Fear: Time to Confess and Confront
ByPeter Harrington November 25, 2016September 18, 2018

Last month’s post was published days before I completed my first marathon. For me, the run was three hours of joy followed by 96 minutes of unrelenting pain. Finishing provoked elation, tears and disbelief…

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