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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

THE CASINO, THE INDIVIDUAL, & SOCIETY

20 February 2018

The relations between the individual and society are like a roulette table. Society is the banker.

ENLIST EINSTEIN

06 February 2018

First, in business as in the rest of life, time is not ‘other’...

HOW TO BECOME THOUSANDS OF TIMES MORE VALUABLE

23 January 2018

Wealth = (Talent) x (Wealth Creation Multiple)...

HOW CAN ONE PERSON BE HUGELY MORE VALUABLE THAN ANOTHER?

09 January 2018

Nobody has really explained the paradox that individuals can’t be many times as intelligent as one another...

HOW WALT DISNEY FUNDED HIS DREAM

19 December 2017

This week we’ve been reminded about the formidable financial power of the empire founded on Donald Duck.

WE NEED A NEW WALT DISNEY

05 December 2017

“In the end, Disneyland was neither just a park nor even an experience.

A HOBBY IS GOOD FOR YOUR LIFE & CAREER

21 November 2017

Every year in November, four people who are friends and also business partners gather in rural Portugal to discuss – whatever we want.

FIND YOUR PLACE IN THE 80/20 FUTURE

07 November 2017

The future belongs to networks. Therefore only work in a network business or a not-for-profit network.

WHICH TYPE OF CAREER WILL MAKE YOU HAPPIEST?

24 October 2017

You should certainly be clear about what you enjoy doing, and whether you can incorporate this into your career.

YOU CAN ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT

10 October 2017

Work out what you want from life. In the 1980s phrase, aim to ‘have it all’. Everything you want should be yours...

IS SUCCESS LUCK OR SKILL?

26 September 2017

People who’ve been successful generally believe their skill was paramount, though they may qualify it with a joke...

ARE EMOTIONS US?

12 September 2017

Our emotions are not really “us”...

BEING FREE

THE 80/20 PRINCIPLE, like the truth, can make you free.

WHEN 80/20 BECOMES 90/10

NOT SO VERY long ago, in 2007 actually, the world of mobile phone makers was placid and predictable. It was typical 80/20.

SUCCESS THROUGH 80/20 NETWORKS

Network society represents a qualitative change in the human experience

FOUR WAYS TO BE HAPPY (AND ONE THAT WON’T WORK)

This week I got a surprise – apart from breaking my arm in a cycling accident in Lisbon.

A NEW MODEL OF HOW TO TAP THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND

Most books about the unconscious make using it complicated.

YOUR HIDDEN FRIEND

Our hidden friend is something we all possess.

THE UNCONSCIOUS IS YOUR TRUMP CARD

I believe future history examinations will contain this question

7 REASONS TO REJOICE

It is in our nature to be dissatisfied with life and to look for improvements, both for ourselves and for society. That is good.

WALK TO THINK, TO DEEPEN FRIENDSHIPS, & TO MAKE MONEY!

It’s official! Through the miracle of Twitter, I have just discovered...

HOW TO SPEND LESS TIME ONLINE & BENEFIT MORE

What information consumes is rather obvious – the attention of its recipients.

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