by Simon Moran | Dec 9, 2019 | Business
By 1983, we’d been through several personnel changes and had firmed up as a three-piece. In two years of hanging around, occasionally rehearsing, all the while dreaming, we had dispensed with two bass players, one vocalist and a keyboard player. The original drummer...
by Simon Moran | Nov 25, 2019 | Business
When working with clients to help them organise their businesses, there are several things we start with. One of these is a personal mission statement, and the other is a mission, vision and values statement for the business. The personal vision statement focuses, of...
by Simon Moran | Oct 7, 2019 | Business
I come from the northeast of England and went to school there until 1985. Many readers of this blog will have gone to school elsewhere, and will be much younger than I am. I’m 52 at the time of writing. I’ve developed a lot since I left school, so has institutional...
by Simon Moran | Sep 23, 2019 | Business
The 11 O-Levels I gained from my compulsory education were English language, English literature, maths, additional maths, physics, chemistry, Latin, history, AST, general studies and computer studies. The necessary skills and traits for business listed last time were:...
by Simon Moran | Sep 15, 2019 | Business
When I was at school in England, the law of the time dictated that everybody had to have compulsory education to a certain age. With exceptions for home-schooling and birthdays early in the academic year, this meant, de facto, everybody had to stay at school until the...