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2023: A year of anniversaries
Last Saturday, 35 founders, employees and partners of Motion Media Technology got together to mark the 30th anniversary of its founding, ...
Nov 13, 2023 / Read More
The Perilous Shift: From Octopus to Japanese Knotweed — The Danger of Startup Founders Becoming…
The world of startups is often celebrated for its dynamic and innovative nature, where the founder can be likened to an “octopus” for the...
Jun 23, 2023 / Read More
My Learning Workout
Last month I had the privilege of joining alumni and some of the current cohort, of the Common Purpose January Programme, for 3 days of ‘...
Nov 07, 2022 / Read More
Calibrating one’s leadership capability
As I sit on a flight to Ghana, I’m reflecting on my first visit to the beautiful place and people that Ghana is, back in 2012. I want to ...
Nov 14, 2021 / Read More
Finding the common purpose
Over the last few years I have found myself in numerous conversations where I’ve been trying to find the way to bring different and often...
Sep 26, 2020 / Read More
Innovation Assets as Leadership Symbols
We may be entering the deepest recession for 300 years. There are 6 million people furloughed — across all sectors — and many businesses ...
Jul 09, 2020 / Read More
A thought on corporate governance post-lockdown
I hosted a group of IoD Chartered Directors last week — just by chance, representative of private, public and health sectors (although, a...
Jun 07, 2020 / Read More
Enriching innovation ecosystems with diversity in business and cities
The question of which places in the UK might be the best targets for investment and attention in terms of R&D-led ‘levelling up’ has been...
Apr 24, 2020 / Read More
Does tech + philanthropy = opportunity for disadvantaged communities?
Last week I supported Quartet Community Foundation and The University of Bristol’s Digital Futures Institute where we brought together a ...
Feb 15, 2020 / Read More
Culmination
First published on the Engine Shed website, and reproduced here with their kind permission.
Nov 19, 2019 / Read More