A story in the newspaper and an incident in town both contributed to my thoughts for this week’s blog. The story in the newspaper related to a mother who advocated starting to build their child’s CV from birth! Thus not only making sure that the child was enrolled for the best school, but also making...
Tag: consultant
Am I too old to run a business?
I make no secret of the fact that I am past the age of retirement but still working on new projects, writing blogs, proposals and books and continuing to take on speaking engagements. Indeed, my life is now the busiest it has ever been. And yet I am constantly asked either ‘are you retired’ or...
Too much information
I was sitting near to a couple of lifts waiting for my wife and I had the opportunity to observe people using the lifts for quite a time. Now, despite my advancing years, I have been pretty efficient when it comes to operation of the elevator. If I want to go up then I press...
The importance of skills
Recently a number of things have reminded me that we spend a disproportionate mount of time on qualifications and not enough on skills. I was reading an article in which employees were saying how people coming out of university were lacking in the skills they required of new applicants. This is despite 95% of students...
What is wrong with entrepreneurship?
Recently I was preparing a report and I put in it that the local university had 12,000 potential entrepreneurs. When the document was reviewed I was told that it was an arrogant and slightly over the top statement. Quite frankly, given that the report was supposedly on an entrepreneurship project, I was astounded at the...
What about creativity clubs?
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...
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...