I wrote a weekly newsletter in 2025; it wasn’t about doing more, but about seeing more clearly. Seeing: where tolerance has crept in where effort...
Start the Year by Deciding Less
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What to Think About When You’re Finally Not Working
No single season destroyed United. Simply speaking: Tolerance is drift and drift becomes decline.
The Business Case for Letting Go
No single season destroyed United. Simply speaking: Tolerance is drift and drift becomes decline.
Tolerating things until they become the new normal
No single season destroyed United. Simply speaking: Tolerance is drift and drift becomes decline.
December Is the Real New Year
And so we have entered December, most of us are preparing for a break from work and some rest time with family and friends. I am reminded how a...
How you make pay decisions without guilt, fear, or guesswork
Last week, I talked about why people go the extra mile, and why the things that make a team fight for the cause rarely come down to money alone. ...
The Secret Behind Teams That Outperform Their Pay Grade
“People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise, and trust.” — Dale Carnegie As World Cup 2026 qualifying started to really...
The True Cost of a Bad Hire (and Why It’s Always More Than You Think)
“If you think it’s expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur.” — Red Adair My Bad Hire Story A few years ago, I made what...
Let’s Keep Moving
We moved house this week, and it genuinely felt like more than just geography. It was a message to ourselves. The boxes are still half-packed, and...
A Halloween Story About Black Swans
Happy Halloween! We will be enjoying a Halloween tradition in our house, with wine, snacks and finding the cheesiest and worst scary movies we...
A Cash Guide for a Good Night’s Sleep
“Cash… is like oxygen — you don’t notice it until it’s gone.” Warren Buffett Before I talk about the cash in your business, I want to first talk...
Your Business Can’t Scale While You Email
You may have heard me speaking of this before, but a few years ago, I hit a wall. It was summer of 2018. We had been in Portugal for two years, the...
Structure Without Suffocating Spirit
As I have watched Manchester United consistently drop in standards over the past decade, it has unfortunately also coincided with a period of almost...
Margins Shrinking? This Is Your Easiest Fix
Margins don’t often vanish overnight. Instead they are allowed to slowly shrink away, eaten up by rising salaries, creeping software costs, and the...
The Hidden Cost of Saying Yes
Uber was the ultimate growth story. In less than a decade, the company expanded into more than 80 countries, raised billions in funding, and became...
Always being right is so wrong
In the early '90s, George Michael filed a legal case against Sony, arguing his recording contract amounted to “professional slavery.” He claimed it...
When Disaster Strikes: 3 Steps to Recovery
We all hope it won’t happen, but in your business, disaster will hit eventually. The events of March 2020, Covid-19 and global lockdown are still...
Something just doesn’t feel right
Over the last two newsletters I have discussed how businesses evolve through a common lifecycle, and how that lifecycle has plateaus and dips as...
The ONE Thing
Do you know the ONE thing for your business? This is the only place where growth truly begins.
The Reverse Planning Method: How To Achieve Your 10 Year Goals
Niall McGinnity, CEO @ Nuvem9 One of the biggest driving forces in our decision to move to Portugal and live beside the ocean is that the beach, sea...
Three Most Important Questions
We’re back for the final instalment of Making the First Move. Missed ‘Making The First Move' so far? Here's how you can: Forget The Firefighting –...
How To (actually) Be Effective
I'm back for part 3 of 4 this week. If you’ve missed parts 1 & 2 of ‘Making The First Move’, you can find step 1 here - Forget Firefighting, and...
How to Reclaim Your Leadership When You Feel You’re Drifting
Have you ever felt like your business is running you, instead of the other way around? If you have, you're not alone. The good news is that when you...
Forget The Firefighting – Do This First
“What do I do first?” This was a question asked by an overwhelmed business owner recently. Whether a Founder, a Managing Director, or maybe a solo...