Today is International Jazz Day! Introduction According to www.daysoftheyear.com International Jazz Day “is intended to promote peace, diversity, respect among the various cultures and highlights the needs for human rights and dignity. The music itself addresses the...
Critical Success Factors for a Startup! Working with entrepreneur and startup clients can be rather predictable at the outset. A few concepts, main ingredients for a realistic and viable business plan, need to be explained and debated passionately almost every time...
Tiger Woods – 2019 Masters – An Entrepreneur Lesson I don’t know about you, but I was glued to the TV the whole weekend when this year’s 2019 Masters golf tournament was on. I am a true golf enthusiast, so it was normal for me to watch the tournament and...
The Entrepreneur’s Chef Syndrome – a Startup Killer! I came about the Chef Syndrome years ago. I have found, during 20+ years of working with startups and entrepreneurs, that the Chef Syndrome can be a Startup Killer. Before I outline how I arrived at this...
Fashion Store Closures Increasing Fashion store closures like like Michael Kors are continuing to grab the headlines. Michael Kors is another victim of competition in general and online shopping in particular. Reuters Business News describes in detail the more than...
Job Hunting with an MBA Job hunting with an MBA: The original article about Hamish Forwood-Stokes an MBA who is doing an internship at Splittable in London, hoping to get a full time job appeared in the Financial Times see link below. The article argues that private...