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TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR STUDENTS

26 February 2019

Here are my Ten Commandments...

IN PRAISE OF REVOLUTIONARY CONSERVATISM

12 February 2019

But two things impressed me above all...

THE FALLACY OF LOYALTY

23 January 2019

The idea that you should be loyal to a corporation and it should be loyal to you – is a lie...

TOWARDS THE POST-PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC

08 January 2019

Can we get beyond the Protestant work ethic...

IN PRAISE OF INACTION

11 December 2018

Value-Added versus Value-Subtracted

KOCH & PETERSON ON FRIENDS

27 November 2018

Without relationships we are either dead to the world – or dead

LIBERATE YOURSELF FROM THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC

13 November 2018

What do you detest? There will be many different answers from you all. But I bet that none of you have this rather eccentric answer of mine – I detest the Protestant work ethic.

SAINTS ANCIENT & MODERN

30 October 2018

In researching my next book, I’ve taken nineteen people, some dead, some alive, who were in my opinion, “unreasonably successful”

SKIN IN THE GAME: A DOZEN ACTION IMPERATIVES

16 October 2018

I am a somewhat reluctant fan of Nicholas Nassim Taleb, and having finished his latest book, Skin in the Game, I settled down to write a review.

WHY THE WEST IS DIFFERENT, BUT CAN UNITE THE WORLD IN PROSPERITY

04 October 2018

Anthropologist Richard Shweder explains that there is a fundamental difference between Western and non-Western concepts of morality.

THE CHAINS OF FREEDOM

18 September 2018

There is a tendency to believe that individualism is the product of the last century

THE STAR PRINCIPLE – SIMPLIFIED

04 September 2018

What will make you successful? What will make you rich? Preposterous as it sounds, there is a magic formula.

THE 80/20 OF 80/20

This time I’m going to give the essence – if you like, the 80/20 – of 80/20

SIMPLIFY SIMPLIFIED

There are two reliable strategies for successful simplifying to create a very attractive star business

THE BRUTAL SIMPLICITY QUIZ

This week I was reviewing some of the simplest and most useful breakthroughs in business thinking...

AMAZON & AIRBNB – CONTRASTING ATTITUDES TO CUSTOMERS

Amazon has always had exceptional aspirations about customers, which marks it out from that of ninety-nine percent of companies

TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK, LOOK AT WHAT YOU DO!

Jordon B Peterson’s tome 12 Rules for Life. It wasn’t what I expected.

IN PRAISE OF OUR LIMITATIONS

I was struck this week by the juxtaposition of two quotations which are more profound than they appear.

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARGARET

Memoirs by politicians usually send me to sleep. Imagine my surprise in finding an exception...

THE 80/20 WAY TO READ A NON-FICTION BOOK

My tutor at Oxford used to set me weekly essays and give a long reading list of books and articles.

A NEW WAY TO GET RICH

Rarely it is true that there is a reliable new way to get rich. Perhaps once in a hundred or two hundred years.

THE TRIUMPH OF THE STRATEGY PARADIGM

The difference between business today and as it was in the 1960s is immense and the difference is the strategy paradigm.

BUSINESS = IDEAS IN MOTION

Businesses are made of ideas – ideas expressed as words

WHERE WILL YOU BE HAPPIEST?

You only need to do a little travelling to realize that some places are much happier than others.

THE EMPEROR’S NEW CLOTHES

A Modern Version – with apologies to Hans Christian Andersen

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