How Full Is Your Glass?
Is it best to be an optimist or a pessimist, either in your personal life or in your business? Well, that depends. Optimism and pessimism aren’t as easy to define ... Read more
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Every post I’ve written on business, newest first.
Are You Ready to Dodge the Icebergs?
The seas of business have become hazardous lately — for reasons you know well, unless you’ve been living on the moon. High waves, submerged reefs, maybe even icebergs. Is your ... Read more
Slughorns and Slubberdegullions
The Victorian poet Robert Browning loved finding obscure, archaic words to use in his poems. The trouble was, he didn’t always take the trouble to find out what they meant. ... Read more
Sometime Starts with an N
How often do you say “I’ll do it sometime”? If you’re anything like me, it’s probably very often indeed. All those tasks that don’t have hard deadlines, so it’s OK ... Read more
Silence Isn’t Golden
“Silence is golden”, according to the classic Sixties song, echoing the old proverb “speech is silver, silence is golden”. Profound philosophy, perhaps, but definitely not a philosophy to be applied ... Read more
What Has a Water Mill to Do with Modern Business?
I recently visited the water mill at Mill Green, near Hatfield. If you don’t know it (and if not I can recommend it), this is a still-working mill that’s thought ... Read more
Promising and Delivering in Writing
Promising and delivering are fairly central to any business. After all, if we don’t promise, no-one knows what we have to offer, while if we don’t deliver on the promises, ... Read more
Are You Creative?
A few weeks ago, I attended The Creative Expo at the University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield. It was a business show specially geared towards the creative industries, and I found ... Read more
Plain Sailing on a Bumpy Road
In a recent speech about Brexit, Theresa May claimed that the process wouldn’t be “plain sailing” and there would be “bumps in the road”. Politics and Brexit opinions apart, the ... Read more
Can You Network Too Much?
As you may know, I’m enthusiastic about business networking. Although my website has helped (I currently rank second on the Google search for “copywriting services Hertfordshire”), it’s mainly been networking ... Read more
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