Tag: Making money

There were times when things did get hairy for me when I had no clients, and I wondered about where the money was going to come from.

My advice for anyone who is employed would be to remember it’s not your business. You shouldn’t be expected to care as much as the person who owns it.

Immediately after my MBA at Manchester Business School, I joined a tech startup as an investor employee, investing £50k into the business.

Biggest fuck up? Over the last 15 years, there’s been plenty of moments that – at the time – looked like Mr Fuck Up had...

If you tell someone you run your own business, the next question they ask is, ‘How big is it?’. This creates a lot of social pressure to make the business as big as possible (regardless of whether that’s the right thing to do). 

We live in a cut-throat world so when at work, the primary focus should be delivering amazing work. I'm not sure the younger generation has worked that out.

I forgave him and learned my lesson long ago. I don’t know if he ever did. We haven’t spoken in twenty years.

THE self-appointed, uninspirational, backwards thinking "leader" currently influencing thousands of below-average people