I’m enjoying my time teaching strategy at Birmingham City University. Being a Visiting Lecturer means I can tell a lot of war stories and talk about Hephae Energy …
“Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time” – Buzz Aldrin …
“Sustainability makes good business sense, and we’re all on the same team at the end of the day. That’s the truth about the human condition” – Paul Polman …
“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself” – Henry Ford In 2010, my career took me to the Middle East, and I lived …
“Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” – attributed to Peter Drucker A 2021 Freakonomics podcast by Stephen Dubner quotes Vikas Mehrotra, a finance professor at the University of Alberta on the “Cobra …
“I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: ‘Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right’” – Vince …
“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” – Mary Shelley A post of mine from 2020 related the unfortunate story of the Vasa, a large and expensive …
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.” – Henry Ford In the foreword to my first book, I described an interview in Houston that led …
“Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien.” – Voltaire Inevitably, while writing this blog, I have a coffee in front of me. Over the last few years, in the …
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses” – George Washington Carver Several years ago, while based in Texas, I was …
