Recently a reader suggested I might like to read their professor’s blog Random Rantings. In the blog Freek Vermeulen an Associate Professor of Strategic & International Management at the London Business School reflects on various issues related to Corporate Strategy, sounds interesting.
One of the first posts to catch my eye was “Today’s fast-changing business environment”? [...]

Motivating employees is a hot topic at the moment. The key motivational theories are covered on most MBA courses, touched on by many management books and of course blogged about.

Unfortunately despite the knowledge being widely available, it doesn’t seem to be widely understood. Instead managers seem to rely on the carrot and stick approach (pay [...]

Yesterday I recieved an email about the “Inspirational Business Mum of the Year” Award which contained some interesting facts from their research including this one:

40 per cent of ’Mum Magnates’ get the idea to start their own business whilst pregnant, or within a year of their baby being born

Which doesn’t surprise me, since becoming a [...]

A reader asks:

I want to start my own cleaning company the problem is I don’t know how to start up. I have several business ideas but I think this is easy to start with since it doesn’t require a lot of capital. Please can you give me some advice on how to start?

Well firstly I’d [...]

Browsing the BBC’s news this morning I came across this article about the MacBook Air, Apple’s new ultra-thin laptop (sorry I think I’ll stick to my Asus EEE PC at 20% of the price), hidden away at the end of the article however was the news that:

Apple announced it had sold four million iPhones in [...]

It’s often claimed that small businesses and startup entrepreneurs are at a disadvantage because the lack the funds of bigger businesses. The answer that’s always offered is that entrepreneurs should learn to bootstrap and find creative ways to do more with less. Well this video that I’ve just come across provides a great example of [...]

Yesterday I asked “who hates you?“, and suggested that if there’s a group of people that hates you, there’s probably an equally passionate group of people that like you because of it. That post was inspired by Seth Godin, who today writes:

Obviously, not everyone complains all the time. Perhaps it’s just a few a day. [...]

Seth Godin recently wrote that:

Encyclopedia salesmen hate wikipedia…
And CNET hates Google
And newspapers hate Craigslist
And music labels hate Napster
And used bookstores hate Amazon
And so do independent bookstores.

Which got me thinking. If you’re currently evaluating a new business opportunity have you considered who will hate you? Who hates you might just make the difference between success and [...]

Earlier today I recieved and email about an Internet business opportunity called “The ‘5 Quid Payments’ Plan”. Which is a short, 37 page ebook explaining how to make money online by selling ebooks for £5. Typically I avoid such ebooks as they usually contain excessive hype and claim that you can “get rich quick” by [...]

Do you think you know more about entrepreneurship than Guy Kawasaki?

Was the subject line of an email I recieved on Wednesday from Scott Shane. I have to admit it intrigued me. The email goes on to say:

Do you think you know more about entrepreneurship than Guy Kawasaki?
He took the quiz linked to my new book, [...]