I’m currently reading this great book about Hubspot by Dan Lyons, a former journalist who got a job working on their blog. In it he details a phenomenon called the bozo explosion; something hubspot is in particular guilty of. Now anyone that works with yourmoneytree.co.uk knows that we’re great advocates of hubspot, but because we

I want to tell you a little story, you may or may not know this about me but at one point in my life I had nothing, well actually less than nothing. I slept on a concrete floor in a warehouse for just over a year, although I did have the luxury of running water

There’s an old saying, I’m not sure who originally said it but often I find the old sayings are remarkably close to the truth when figuring out how to solve a problem. I’ve previously written about how I don’t believe that leaders should “manage” their teams, instead advocating that real leaders are great conductors but

Welcome to volume 2 of our business blog. Part one was actually written as a book over the period of a year, both chartering my experiences at the time and the cumulative lessons learnt of years at the coal face of small business. Part two then is going to be much freer flowing and hap

This post has been by far the hardest to write; it’s coming at the end but it was one of the first I wrote. It’s interesting that the other posts just flowed naturally and yet it’s been 3 months since I turned my laptop on and wrote anything. There are many reasons for this, lack

Until this point I have been pretty vocal about my belief that “management” is the wrong word to use. Leadership is more about empowering them to figure out how to solve problems themselves, through good recruitment, training and ultimately through equipping them with the right tools to do the job too. As such it’s my