There are different ways to respond when a business idea fails. There’s a big difference between saying “We were wrong” and abandoning the idea, and saying “We didn’t quite get it right” and modifying your business strategy to make it work.
When we developed the Internet UNMASKED!! events, we did so on the basis that we […]

When I lived in the Thames/Coromandel district, I built a boat and lived on it for a few seasons.
I bought the hull in an unfinished state, and was told when I got it that a fisherman in the West Coast designed it. It was a nice little bilge keeler - a sixteen-foot cabin boat that […]

When we dig deeper, we find that things are not always as they seem.
Wisdom is the art of seeing things from a bigger perspective than others. If the majority believes that the mass media have our best interests at heart and want to give us the truth, then wisdom requires us to test this. Asking […]

I love wisdom - it’s cool. It sounds like such a desirable attribute to have - although in some ways it seems such an airy fairy “out there” concept! But wisdom is simply viewing a given situation through bigger eyes than our own.
As an example of this, imagine that a mother knows that a child […]

Last year I purchased a web development company that was in decline. Unfortunately after we purchased it we found a few more skeletons in the closet than we had first anticipated and for a while things were looking rather challenging.
When we undertake to buy something (a business, a car, or whatever) we obviously aim to […]