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Who can blame them? Tenths of thousands of bright, ambitious young undergraduates are about to head off to university for an ‘education.’ Unless the economic landscape changes rapidly they are likely to be disappointed when it comes to securing a real ‘graduate job’ at the end of their course. First some context parameters; what constitutes a graduate job? read more of University places oversubscribed Failure, I dislike the word intensely. The word failure delivers a sucker punch to hope, optimism and self-belief. As an alternative, I propose the word ‘lesson.’ Lesson conveys: an experience, one which we can evaluate, reflect and make our own minds up about. A natural outcome to any lesson is: we feel either positive or negative about the experience. If read more of Lessons not failures How many times have you had a great idea only to do nothing about it? If like me, your mind is constantly thinking of new schemes and improvements to existing products and services you’ll know it makes life interesting. If read more of Procrastination The tortoise and the hare; we know how it ends, it’s a story designed to convey the message that steady beats fast. How then does this fable apply to the start-up entrepreneur? While the tortoise researches, plans, anticipates the what ifs and proceeds steadily the hare can’t wait to make progress and speed off seemingly unconcerned about read more of Tortoise or Hare Thirty years ago today the Special Air Service (S.A.S.) stormed the Iranian Embassy in London and into the glare of the world’s media spotlight; their days of relative anonymity were over. This elite fighting force is without equal; their operational successes largely unpublished, the ones we know about are often beyond public comprehension. The S.A.S. are an enigma; read more of Flash, bang, we're here I was fortunate enough to travel on Concorde from London to New York. A more inspirational and alluring commercial aircraft it is hard to imagine. It seems although we were bright and talented enough to conceive, design and create this engineering wonder, we lack the foresight and gumption to celebrate its success in an appropriate way. The last read more of Concorde ready to depart The Apprentice returned to our television screens for its fifth series last night; inevitably the program will lead to many newspaper column inches over the coming weeks. What the viewer sees on TV is a slickly produced, entertainment show with as accurate a portrayal of real business as the James Bond 007 franchise has to the security read more of The Apprentice returns It’s tempting, in the face of challenging financial conditions to cut-back on all expenditure save for that absolutely necessary for survival. Behaviour designed to enable the business to survive can have self-fulfilling outcomes however, meaning the organisation mearly makes it through and exists only. OK, continuing to trade is a given, but what if this is at the read more of Tough times for business – Fight through Imagine what life would be like if… * You could feel good about yourself all of the time; read more of Imagine! |
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