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Moran actually outperforms Elon Musk.* Not only does the frivolity restart with the borders reopening, but I'm finally updating and re-posting articles from my archives. Back in May, 2022, Elon Musk suggested on Twitter that if Japan didn't start doing a lot more...
Have Bag (and Net) Will Travel
On October 5th, 1992, 30 years ago today, I left England. I had a one-way ticket to Australia via Bangkok, and, save a few months dossing at me mam’s on the dole, I've never returned there to live and work. When I left, I was 25, a pint of beer cost £1.49 and...
Jobs in Japan Podcast
I hope everybody enjoyed a good Golden Week break. I recently spoke to Charlie Moritz from the Jobs in Japan podcast. We did three podcasts that you can watch and listen to at the links below. Be great to hear any questions or comments. Recently Elon Musk caused a bit...
Number Crunching Part 1
In the coming posts I will expand upon the valuing schools post. Using information from schools for sale posted online recently and in the past, I have put together some fictitious, hybrid examples. None of these schools are real in themselves, but are all based on...
Buying, Selling and Valuing Schools and ELL Businesses
Five valuation methods for buying, selling and valuing schools and ELL businesses.
Timing, Team, Location and Sunk Costs
In his 2015 TED talk, Bill Gross, the founder of Idealab, looked at why start-ups succeed or fail and concluded timing was the most important difference in success and failure.
To a Healthy New Year
This is what we sent out on December 30th this year: "We hope 2020 will turn out to be a fantastic Year of the Rat for everybody; that you will all be scooting about hither and thither in prosperous endeavours." Instead, all our hopes were fantastically dashed. Has a...
Maximum ELT
A G D The change it had to come. Synchronous, asynchronous, blended, flipped, virtual, augmented. These terms have been around for a long time. People have learned online for a long time. For many years, before Covid, expensive schools told us face-to-face was better...
Illusory superiority
Lots of school owners say they run their schools to cater to the needs of their students. In a survey in 1981, 93% of U.S. drivers rated themselves as having above-average driving skills. This is obviously impossible. It demonstrates illusory superiority and shows how...
Drilling
In 1960 in the article "Marketing Myopia" published by the Harvard Business Review, Ted Levitt wrote, “No one buys a quarter-inch drill bit because they need a quarter-inch drill bit. What they need is a quarter-inch hole. That’s what you should sell them.” In 2018 in...