It’s easy enough to make a list of what qualities an entrepreneur should have. A good leader, motivator, communicator, they should persevere… These are all the sorts of things you expect a good manager or leader to have, but that doesn’t differentiate an entrepreneur....
I meet someone for the first time: “What do you do?” they ask. “I’m an accountant” I answer. They immediately start looking over my shoulder to find someone more interesting to talk to…They’ve used a label – all...
To use a disclaimer from the financial services industry – past performance is a not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of your investment may go up and down. Yes, we know. And increasingly we realise that past performance is just that, past,...
A reflection on some aspects of the Global Drucker Forum 2015, with thoughts pertaining to the 2016 Forum theme: The Entrepreneurial Society…by which I mean they have self-belief, self-control, and self-actualisation.But they’re not the solution to rising...
We’ve recently got involved in two shareholder agreements. In the first case this was an existing client who wanted to strengthen their management team, and give a potential exit route for one shareholder. The other is a start-up, and there was a need to...
IN AN AGE OF INCREASING DIGITALISATION AND AUTOMATION WHERE DO MANAGERS FIT INTO THE WORKFORCE, AND HOW WILL MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES HAVE TO ADAPT TO THE NEW WORKING LANDSCAPEReturning to the subject of the Global Drucker Forum in November 2015, which we started in this...
