If your work is stuck for ideas then they might ask you to get into teams and come up with some new products. This brainstorming type of action is repeated up and down the country, but I’ve got news for you it doesn’t work. People who work alone, or work without the fear of being

To me reporting is super important because it’s the only way that you can separate the good from the bad and focus on getting better. Most people are scared of reporting and as such they bend it to their own will, showing only the stats that help prove their point but this is wrong .

You’re probably looking at this title and thinking I’ve lost the plot. I assure you I could not be more serious. Find an idea that could be run by a ham sandwich (an actual Warren Buffett quote!). In my time as a consultant, director and project specialist the most successful businesses I have seen can

Up and down the country, in magazines, on the TV and through the speeches that government ministers or self-help experts give us, we’re told that anyone can be an entrepreneur. Any idea with a little bit of hard work can succeed. Wrong. Most ideas will fail, but well done for trying anyway; at least you

It amazes me every day how other people get employed to do the jobs they have. I’ve talked before about linking output and value to a person’s salary, but if we move away from that and simply look at the key skills necessary, it’s simply mind boggling how the world of supposed experts is actually

When I was 21 I wrote my dissertation on Chinese market theory in the 15th century and comparisons we could draw to it in a post economic crash. It sounds grand thing and admittedly it’s nice to put on your CV but the premise was quite simple. Back when I was studying economics, I came