On Thursday evening I was sat at a low table with Maureen. “It is nice to be able to speak to people”. She clarified “At most events the majority would have had several beers by now”. “We can have a real conversation and I like that.” I knew that Saudi Arabia was alcohol free, but … Read more
Take a look around you. Take a look at the people you work with, the people you meet at parties, even the people you just casually pass in the street. How do they spend their days? Most of them work. They do some other activities as well. They sleep, eat, cook, hang out with friends, … Read more
Most days are much the same. However, great changes in our world don’t come from normal days – they are driven by the extreme events, the outliers. Something like 70% of all the drops in the US stock exchanges are due to 6 particular days of extreme share price drops. The course of my own … Read more
I read Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres when I was 23 years old. It changed an idea I had about life. This scared me. My Summary of the Book’s Story The book tells the story of an lieutenant that is stationed on a Greek Island as part of the Italian occupation during the second … Read more
I have a monthly tradition of meeting for a 9:30am brioche and coffee in the best brioche place in Barcelona (cannot reveal the secret location) with my french-hungarian friend and entrepreneur Andre Vanyi-Robin (of Bestv and Entrepreneurs’Organisation). We met yesterday. The brioche was good. Andre told me a great story about the 90 10 rule. … Read more
I Heard Rod Beckstrom speak in Dubai a couple of years ago. He tells a great story about a starfish and a spider. If you come accross a spider and cut off one of its legs, what do you have? A dead leg and a 7-legged spider. If you cut off the spider’s head, what … Read more
As a business owner, you tend to hear a lot of stories about better business, tips and tricks of the trade, and lessons about management. Out of all of them, though, there’s one story that has stuck with me through the years. It’s a story that taught me to enjoy every aspect of business, and … Read more