Technology

  • December 2, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

As a leader you must be liked, not loved

If you’re the leader can’t be one of the boys. You can’t gossip by the coffee machine. You can’t be friends with your staff. You can’t be loved. If you need to be

  • December 1, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Is your startup a caterpillar or a pig?

Both caterpillars and pigs are ugly. If you wait long enough, a caterpillar will turn into a butterfly. No matter how long you wait, a pig will always be a

  • November 30, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Try hard, but not too hard

You have to do your best, try your hardest, all the time. Everyone knows that. The secret is not to try too hard. Don’t force it. Trying too hard leads

  • November 26, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Beware your ego’s self defence mechanism

Everyone has an ego. And everyone protects it, consciously and unconsciously. For example, if you have an ugly nose, your brain eventually tricks your eyes into not seeing it every

  • November 23, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Be generous when times are tough

  Being generous is one of the golden rules of life. Easy to do when times are good. A lot harder when you’re in the vortex. That’s when it counts.

  • November 22, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Wherever you find cockroaches, you will find more cockroaches

If you uncover scandal/dodginess with a person/business you’re considering hiring/dealing with, pause. Reconsider. Ignore all proclamations that it was a “once-off”, that there will be no more unexpected surprises. Wherever

  • November 20, 2024
  • Alan Knott-Craig

Don’t plan too far ahead

  You need a goal, and you need a plan to get you to your goal. The goal is more important than the plan. Get that wrong and everything else