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Why our plant a tree campaign keeps growing?
It’s amazing, our plant a tree campaign just keeps growing… 24 more trees have been planted in March by Shiva Trust (our mental health charity partner) on behalf of our customers. Shiva Trust have 1,233 trees still unallocated, and this is where your help is required. You see, we plant a tree for everyone who
principles
How principles can help you grow?
Do you organise your personal and business life through principles? Ray Dalio certainly does… For those of you who don’t know Ray Dalio, he’s the founder of Bridgewater Associates, one of the world’s most prestigious investment management companies. Dalio started Bridgewater from his 2-bed apartment in 1975, and through developing a series of life and
animal counting cave drawings
Why counting takes us back to the future?
Do me a favour, I want you to figure out the answer to the sum: 4 + 7? You’ve got the answer? That’s great, keep hold of it. Most of you might have performed the addition in your head – the way that we learn to do small sums at the lowest level of primary
excellence
Why excellence still counts in an AI world?
Shouldn’t we all pursue a lifetime of excellence? American writer on business practises, Tom Peters, certainly thinks so. Following on from his 1982 international best seller ‘In Search of Excellence’ comes ‘The Excellence Dividend’. Tom sees it as a kinda sequel, and the underlying message is still the same, we must seek excellence to survive.
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Manchester United tough love success
What’s tough love in business context? Think of Sir Alex Ferguson (which is hard for me as I’m a Liverpool fan) who personified it for me. Ferguson managed Manchester United for an amazing 26 years, residing over the clubs most successful period, and recognised by many as the best football manager ever. Under his stewardship
roman
Can you change & innovate like the Roman army?
Most would see the ancient Roman military as one of the most dominant military forces in history… With an unparalleled force of over 300,000, the Romans laid siege to the Mediterranean, effectively taking over the entire basin. With their territory stretching far into Spain, the British Isles and Egypt and having conquered dominant players like
chess your next five moves
What’s your next five business moves?
Patrick Bet-David has an amazing story… Aged 10 his parents fled Iran for the U.S. as refugees during the Iranian revolution. Growing up in a foreign country was tough, and with Patrick never obtaining a college degree, he joined the U.S. military, serving in the 101st Airborne. On leaving the army he went on to
bench press
Bench press leads to business improvement
When I was in my late teens, I was small and skinny, a stiff breeze would have knocked me over… Although I couldn’t do much about being small (still am), I could do something about being skinny. So, I joined the local gym. I was in awe of the perfectly toned bodies lifting heavy weights
microsoft
Why Microsoft breed intrapreneurs?
The less your business depends on you, the more valuable it’s likely to be… And there’s likely to be no exit opportunity if the business relies on you to operate. Microsoft are a company that breeds intrapreneurs, giving their team autonomy to help the company grow, and who are rewarded based upon Microsoft’s financial success.
marketing
Could it be the end of marketing?
Is it the end of traditional marketing? Carlos Gil certainly thinks so, as explained in his 2020 book ‘The End of Marketing’. It’s an interesting read, with a core message of creating personal brands to market your organisation across social media platforms. Gil believes not only is traditional marketing dead, brand-marketing is also on the
podcasts for business
Podcasts – the next big wave in business?
The podcasting experience might just be the next big wave in business… Funnily enough, podcasting got its name from the iPod – the first mobile platform where ‘audio-blogs’ could be downloaded and listened to. Journalist Ben Hammersly coined the term ‘podcast’ back in 2004 and since around that time- when podcasts were made available on
tree
Tree planting in the mud and rain…
Whilst delivering we dropped in to see how our mental health charity partner Shiva Trust, were getting on with the latest 1,000 tree planting. We found Anand and the team planting trees knee deep in mud, during a Rossendalian downpour. Anand told me: “These 2 paddocks had our pigs in them, but we’re moving them
humans
Who needs humans anyway?
Who needs humans anyway? That’s the subtle for ‘The Glass Cage’ written by Nicolas Carr in 2015, which is not like other books written about the future with technology, it comes from a different angle. It’s still a book about automation, about the use of technology, computers, and software to do things we used to
Moore's law
Why Moore’s Law inspires guaranteed prices?
Gordon Moore was co-founder of Intel… Although, he’s better known for a prediction made in a 1965 article for ‘Electronics’ magazine, about integrated circuits and how the cost of them will drive innovation, he said: “The Complexity for minimum component cost has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of 2 per year, over
AI technology
Is the AI revolution the second machine age?
Society hasn’t really seen a machine age since the industrial revolution… When steam power allowed us to overcome the limitations of muscle power (human and animal) and generate massive amounts of useful energy as will. This led to factories and mass production, to railways and mass transportation, modern life if you like. It was the
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