I’ve spoken before that there isn’t a fine line between good and evil, the world is just a melting pot of good things, bad things and questionable things that pretty much paints a picture in grey. The amazing thing about good and bad is the ability of rich and successful people to paint over the

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

People view age as an indicator of experience and yet as discussed previously in this blog, experience means nothing if you don’t learn from it. I was once replaced as the sales director of a company that I loved by someone of more “suitable” experience because the shareholders felt that I was too young for

In the modern world of business people seem to spend more time talking about doing things than actually doing them. If you study any successful person who has succeeded in more than one area of expertise there is a common theme among them; they know how to get things done. That doesn’t mean they are

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

No matter how good your idea is, even if it is great, much like putting an ice cube in the oven, if you make your idea subject to the wrong external factors then it will never get off the ground. There are two great examples that spring to mind of how recent innovations have used