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After three months living in Kuala Lumpur I am planning to return to Turkey for a couple of months before returning here to our apartment on 51st floor, overlooking the city. Therefore it seemed a good time to reflect on what I had learnt from my time here. The first thing that I discovered very...

So much of what we hear today is based around negativity rather than opportunity. The world seems to be adopting a ‘King Canute mentality’ where the message is to try and keep the past rather than moving forwards. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Brexit and in the US Presidential Election. When we look...

Having looked back at the previous decade, it would be a brave person indeed who would attempt to predict detailed advances in the next ten years. Only ten years ago it was being predicted that social media was the tool to set us free! Ten years on we see it as a tool that distributes...

As we come to the start of another decade on Tuesday night, the media is full of predictions of what the next ten years will bring. Such predictions cover everything from technology and its impact, to the economy, social impacts and even religion. When you talk to people their view is often coloured by who...

As promised, this blog comes to you from Kuala Lumpur. Indeed, it is being written from the 51st floor of the apartment block where we now live and where we can look out all over the city. There are many things that have already impressed me about Malaysia, from the way that so many different...

Last week I talked about using my business planning skills to prepare for the new adventure for my wife and me. Today I can tell you how the plan is progressing and where changes have had to be made. In any plan there will always be changes and you must be prepared to adapt to...

As I sit writing this, my wife and me are only a few days away from setting off on our latest adventure. My next blog will let you into the secret, but I thought this blog could cover some of the entrepreneurial lessons from this latest foray. As many of you know, we live in...

Last week I talked about the problem of not listening if you are an entrepreneur, in a world where listening and debating seems to have become very unfashionable. This week, as I saw the debate in Parliament on the Grenfell disaster I saw another failing of people in that they rush to conclusions. This attitude...

Whether you turn on the television or pick up a paper, it seems as if the world today has abandoned reasoned debate in favour of an environment of binary choices. The old fashioned concept of listening has been replaced by the certainty that there is nothing to listen to and everything to shout about. Whether...

I have always believed in the saying that you cannot join the dots going forward and this was never more evident than this weekend. As can be seen from my various profiles and websites, I am now a successful international consultant, writer and motivational speaker. However, if I go back to when I left university,...