It’s amazing how much the cultural points of ones youth, when seen through the wispy passage of time, make fantastic life lessons to pass on to another generation. Perhaps it’s simply a function of age and sentimentality, but the…

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My relationship with my sons is, thankfully, incredibly strong. But, like many other parents, my progeny has a history of diagnosing their father as a simpleton whose IQ is significantly less than his age. My sons are now young…

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In my youth I was a bit of a fan of Bible stories. Not for religious reasons, mind, but simply because they strike me as being interesting historical vignettes that are sometimes applicable to modern situations. One I particularly…

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My introduction to business was fairly prosaic. Thirty years ago a triumvirate of largely unemployable dirtbags who liked to spend their time mountain biking, climbing and tramping came together to build what was then the very nascent idea of…

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Like many individuals of a certain age, some of the unrecoverable hours from my teenage years were wasted (some might say invested) watching a boyish Tom Cruise feel his need for speed as Maverick in Top Gun. Having that…

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I’m an aged sort of a chap. As such I have somewhat traditional views about how to achieve things. Take for example the building of financial freedom for an individual. My perspective is that this is done over time…

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I was chatting to a buddy last week. Said buddy is onto his second CEO gig. On both occasions he has been leading high growth organisations and our coffee conversation centred on the the role of a board and…

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I have lots of opinions and have a tendency to share them both widely and often. It’s a trait that has gotten me in trouble more times than I’d care to remember but one which has also given me…

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As an way of making up for the fact that I have no formal tertiary education to speaking of, I’ve recently been filling that gap by a different sort of education – binge-watching Billions, the drama series set in…

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