I’m often asked how someone as clumsy as me can be a professional speaker, and it’s a good question that I think I can answer with a bit of help from Geoffrey. Geoff was a client of mine a few years ago. He was a gentle ,kind, thoughtful man with no visible ego, and he’d…
I’ve been running my own businesses since I was 25. I didn’t choose to but I was made redundant in the last big recession in Europe (1989-’92) and the consulting firm I worked for went bust in week 2. Brilliant! What’s a boy to do in that position? I just fell into doing small pieces…
I was cycling through the quiet morning streets of Barcelona’s old town yesterday, on a bicycle that’s part of the successful public transport system of this funky, sexy, dirty, hot slice of Spain. Rickety, well-used and nothing like my own at home, the bicycle made me feel distinctly unsteady. I felt like a novice and…