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Lessons and insights on business strategy to help fast-track your career and grow your business.

Mar 1, 20212 min read

Problems with over-promising

There are two unfortunate and unmissable rules related to projects – they cost more than you thought and they take longer than you thought.

Feb 15, 20213 min read

Making frameworks work

It's all well and good being an expert on business frameworks, but this will only get you so far. In this blog I want to talk about how to c

Feb 1, 20214 min read

Are You Listening?

When I retired from running a market research company I needed something to fill my time. Also, after a lifetime as a workaholic, I needed t

Jan 15, 20213 min read

When wrong is always ready

Let's for a minute imagine that we are engineers and we are asked to build a wind farm in the North Sea. Let's also imagine that we are...

Jan 1, 20213 min read

A PEST for 2021

It has come around as we knew it would, so what does 2021 have in store for us? For this we should turn to PEST for a glimpse of the future.

Dec 15, 20202 min read

Frameworks and Sherlock Holmes

The effectiveness of frameworks depends on the managers that implement them. This requires skills and judgement.