Ten years. Is that all? We have short memories. It’s just ten years since the start of the last financial crash that caused banks to go bust and sent others running to governments for support. And let’s be clear it was entirely self-inflicted and avoidable. Too much debt being granted to over-burdened borrowers with too…
Month: October 2017
The Virtues of Persistence
This week I have been reading a little known Jim Collins book called How the Mighty Fall. Unlike Built to Last, Good to Great and Great by Choice, How the Mighty Fall is a book originally intended as a research paper until, as Collins says, it defied the constrictions of an article’. Written just after…
What is your most scarce resource?
I’ll give you a clue. It can fly and heal, you can make it, kill it, manage it, save it and spend it but if you lose it you’ll never be able to find it again? The thing we want the most…but use the worst. The most valuable thing we can spend and yet we…
Whose life are you living?
Imagine you have a new shiny computer with a super-fast processor, loads of memory and mega-speed broadband. It can do anything. And then you programme it with old, out of date, second hand software. You wouldn’t, would you! Bonkers! And if it happened, you’d clear out the old software and replace it with up to…
