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Why Information Enablement is key to thriving in the new digital economy?
Have you ever wondered how exponential organisations – such as Airbnb, Uber, Dropbox, Spotify, and Deliveroo – have been able to grow so quickly and overcome so many of their established traditional competitors? One of their secrets is that they used the power...
What are the alternatives to traditional commercial finance? – Part 1
Traditional commercial finance is, quite simply, in the dark ages compared to modern digital methods for funding business growth. For five years, I helped hundreds of small-business owners raise finance to help them grow their businesses. I have to be honest: I...
How do small businesses transform themselves and take down their masters?
Why do so many business leaders associate so easily with sports teams and their coaches? Yes, many are fanatically following their chosen teams, but I would argue just as many are...
Why is innovation so important to small-business owners?
Quite simply, because innovation is everywhere, it’s either affecting you now or it’s about to. The drastic effects of disruptive innovation on big business can be seen over history and in the present day. Just over 100 years ago, 50% of the world’s most successful...
As a leader, would your employees follow you into battle?
On 8 September 2009, Captain William Swenson was leading a column of American and Afghan troops in order to support a meeting of Afghan government ministers with local elders from the village they were visiting. The column came under heavy ambush from the Taliban and...
How can we beat our most powerful competitor’s?
I sat alone in my small 9 X 9 box office in central London looking at the phone and wondered whether I could build and grow a new business in Europe from scratch.
Why is growing a business such a black box activity?
Study after study concludes that 90% of all successful companies have been unable to sustain growth that creates above average shareholder returns for more than a few years
Does serving under a poor leader make you a better leader?
In the movie Troy, Odysseus played by Sean Bean tries to persuade Achilles (The gorgeous Brad!) to stay and fight for Agamemnon.
Electricity the disruptive “digital innovation” of 100 years ago?
Latest movie, The Current War tells the story of the battle between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse to decide whose version of electricity will power the industrial development of the next century.