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Lord Almighty December 19th, 2010

As someone who is fixated on growing and motivating my team to be the best at what we do, I am always trying to understand what are the key driving points that make some people incredibly successful. I was about to start blogging about the fact that when you have a wife and children, suddenly you seem to become more successful. I first came accross this theory when Vernon Lord a then finance director at Granada jokingly commented that he disliked me, there is always a little truth in the jest. He said, “you have no wife, kids, loan repayments, school fees, ex-wives. You have nothing that ensures you have to perform.” I reminded him that I’d never missed my target and that I was… Read the Rest »

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Summing it up December 13th, 2010

At the CBI awards at the Midland Hotel on Friday I sat and listened to a very clever man Jon Moulton put some of our country’s problems into plain and simple English. “For every £3 the government earns, they are spending £4.” So to break even they’d have to reduce spending by 28%. How can this happen? Charles Dickens famously said: “Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” With all the technology at our fingertips in today’s society how can we not balance the books? Where else in the world can you get away from this sort of lack of control where you can spend more than you… Read the Rest »

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Know mistakes December 6th, 2010

How many people can say that they never make mistakes? I occasionally joke with myself saying, “with all the errors I have made over the years, by now I should technically be the smartest person in Europe.” Of course I am not and my own ability disproves my theory. You dont have to make mistakes to learn, the smartest amongst us learn very quickly to avoid pitfalls, however there is no better way to solidify in your mind, when you get that inevitable thought, “well I never want to do that again.” Yet even though it is a tried and tested method of learning and an important part of our evolution process, I know as a business person we live in fear of making mistakes,… Read the Rest »

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