Insights and ideas

Explore thought-provoking perspectives from my long-running entrepreneurial blog.

You can’t rely on the competition to make a mistake

You competition will make mistakes. You’ll benefit from them. You just can’t your strategy around it. Your plan should be

The world is surprising

When you make a prediction and its wrong, the automatic lesson learnt is that you should have made a better

Things that never happened before happen all the time

Every day there is a unique event in the history of world. That’s why predicting the future is so difficult.

Beware bullies

Not only are bullies unpleasant human beings, but they are inherently cowardly. Cowards are inherently dishonest. They will do anything

There is no map

It’s not easy being an entrepreneur. Sometimes you just wish someone would make a map that you could follow. Bad

As a shareholder, your most important relationship is with the CEO

And vice versa. Don’t ignore your CEO. Don’t ignore your shareholders.

Hang out with people that believe in you

You get to choose who you spend your time with. People that believe in you, or people that don’t. The

Success will seduce you into thinking you can’t lose

Even the smartest people can be seduced. Resist it. You CAN lose. No matter how many wins you’ve had in

Don’t be afraid to change your mind

Things change. New information presents itself. Yesterday’s decision is wrong. It’s ok, there no shame in changing your mind. So