From the Blog on Small Business

Being a Hypocrite

I’m a hypocrite - I have values and beliefs which I profess publicly and silently; yet I often find myself doing the opposite. So yes, I’m a hypocrite, but it feels awfully human. I think we’re all hypocrites at times.  To hypocritise is human (make up a word and go...

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Hard Won Joy

Years ago I was part of a team managing an emergency response with a budget of over 350 million.  I still remember one situation in which someone was talking to me about an opportunity worth around a million dollars; my reaction was “What’s the big deal, it’s only a...

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Running Business and marriage

Business and marriage, while sometimes definitely at odds with each other, have a number of similarities. Strange sentence perhaps, but not too strange if, like me, you view business as relationships. Often the idea or early stages of the business are full of energy,...

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