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I have often commented that government has a lot to learn from entrepreneurs, and that a more entrepreneurial approach to government is essential in today’s world. But the behaviour of politicians of all sides in the Brexit negotiations, or lack of them, has provided a number of lessons for entrepreneurs. Unfortunately these lessons are very...

As September comes around, holidays become a distant memory as children return to school or commence school for the first time. Clearly starting school is important for any child, and also important for every parent that wants the best for their child. But what is really best for their child? One of the obvious tests...

This week I thought I would discuss two entrepreneurial ideas that caught my eye. They were not in any way linked, except that they were both entrepreneurial. The first of these was a communication device produced for the British air force that operated on the principle of bone conduction. There have been bone conduction hearing...

I suppose I should have remembered that the best place to hide something is in plain sight after my wife managed to get her new coat into the home without me noticing it by wearing it! I have just come back from a holiday in Malaysia and, as is my wont, I was looking around...

For the next few weeks I will be on holiday, although I will be looking for new ideas for blogs in the places I visit. In the meantime, here are all my my current books that are all available on www.bookboon.com I hope you enjoy them and look forward to being back blogging in August.

If I was to suggest to people that they feed their children brain-altering drugs that, when abused, have the same effect as cocaine, people would be astonished and regard me as some form of monster. And yet, this is exactly what is happening to an increasing numbers of children. In the last ten years, in...

As a business advisor I often find myself getting involved in advising on franchising as an expansion policy. Only last week a successful restaurant in my locality was discussing precisely this. Within a short time of discussing the necessary conditions for success, the restaurant owner decided that he needed to do much more and not...

In my work I have been lucky enough to see the steady growth of the entrepreneurial culture and have never ceased to marvel at the speed and originality of developments in all spheres of our lives. Whether watching videos of operations by robots controlled by my friend who I see regularly at symphony concerts, or...

This week I was mildly amazed at a story that more people had applied to go on the latest series of Love Island than had applied to Oxford and Cambridge Universities. The actual score was 85,000 to Love Island and 35,000 to Oxbridge! My first thought was that we were now living in a parallel...

When starting a new business it has always been recognised that human resource and property are the two biggest expenditure items and the most difficult to manage. While technology has made some inroads into the human resource requirement, the property issue remains a problem. It has always been the case; with the difficulty for the...