Have A Plan

After a couple of beers last night, I was unloading the dish washer this morning and dropped a coffee mug. The mug fell and broke on the floor. That should be the end of the story, but I tried to catch the mug and ended up breaking the one I held in the other hand....

Information Overload

We live in an era where information has never been so readily available. The phone you are probably reading this from has considerably more computing power than those used in the moon landings. We can access information from all around the world, quicker than ever...

Competition and Networks

A great benefit I learnt from my time running competitively is the ability to use competition for mutual benefit. If a group of runners are together late in a race, working together to keep the pace delivers a better outcome for all (an old personal blog post here if...

Is The Broker Finished?

The feedback from last month’s seminar has been fantastic and greatly appreciated. Particularly so with the end-user discussion panel. A key point of difference between business to consumer business (B2C), vs businesses selling their goods and/or services to other...

Do you Employ Humans, or Cogs?

I love business and working with good businesses. Particularly so when asking the question “what makes them good”. One answer always comes up. The people. People created the business, and people are what keeps it ticking. It’s people that make it great, not machinery,...