This week the press has been full of the latest Apple launch. One commentator likened the event to a religious ceremony and there are certainly similarities with the glass temples of California with its devoted faithful worshipping at the altar of MasterCard! It is certainly a story of incredible growth over the ten years since...
Category: Entrepreneurship
When does corporate mentality overtake innovation?
This week the press has been full of the latest Apple launch. One commentator likened the event to a religious ceremony and there are certainly similarities with the glass temples of California with its devoted faithful worshipping at the altar of MasterCard! It is certainly a story of incredible growth over the ten years since...
Unwrapping the conditioning
I was recently preparing a background synopsis in readiness for a radio interview that I am soon to make. The interviewer wanted an outline of my life so as to understand how I got to where I am today. I saw the interview as an ideal opportunity to yet again encourage people to think outside...
Young people can take the truth about the future
Recently I returned to England as an alumni to attend a celebration of student achievements, including entrepreneurship breakthrough Awards, and to deliver a lecture. When I first started to give lectures on entrepreneurship I half expected to be thrown out on my ear! Not surprising since my first lecture was entitled ‘Failure is an Option’....
This year, next year
As we rapidly approach the end of another year, it is salutary to look both backwards on the year just passing and on the year fast coming into view. As far as 2017 is concerned, I can look back on one where I travelled to more parts of the world than ever, where work took...