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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Knowing what not to charge for.

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Being telepathic.

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

The Great Reaveraging of Me.

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Redefining and undermining industry norms.

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Speaking in ‘chunks’.

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Visual shorthand.

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Timothy’s shed.

May 13, 2025 No Comments

As I get older, making the time to make more times where nothing matters, matters more. I think I was 9-years-old. Lying on the…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Roll the dice.

May 13, 2025 No Comments

Roll the dice! Be brave! Because if we don’t. Nothing happens. Every Monday to Wednesday I flop into my car, or drink coffee on…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

The business case for feeling.

May 9, 2025 No Comments

There’s a business case for feeling. This week, I blurted (I do blurt), this: “I’d rather work with a business leader that doesn’t quite…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Lanxiety.

May 5, 2025 No Comments

Lanxiety is that sickly feeling we get when entering a room filled with people wearing Lanyards. There is no known support group for this…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Would you make a good a a Spitting Image puppet? Is a really good question to ask.

May 2, 2025 No Comments

Would you make a really good Spitting Image puppet? Is a good question to ask. About you – and your business. Distinctive people (and…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Gordon Ramsey’s Cottage Pie.

May 1, 2025 No Comments

Giving away a great deal of what you sell, for free, is such a good thing to do in business. For the confident and…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

I’m ready.

April 30, 2025 No Comments

Chris Eubank Senior is, I think, one of the very best examples of how any business should present itself to the world. First, because…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Ask.

April 29, 2025 No Comments

There’s a tiny little shop in the tiny little village where I live. And yes. Both the shop and the village, are both tiny…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Don’t say what you mean.

April 27, 2025 No Comments

When storytelling about your business, very often, the best way to say what you mean – is to not say what you mean. Years…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Where did lolly stick jokes go?

April 24, 2025 No Comments

Today, I got up very early to focus on some very important client work. Shower. Coffee. Banana and peanut butter wrap. More coffee. Laptop……

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What’s your favourite flavour crayon?

April 23, 2025 No Comments

Boring questions. Boring answers. Boring business. ‘What’s your favourite flavour crayon?’ is an unusual question. Unusually brilliant. Not just because of the raw content,…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Les Greggs.

April 20, 2025 No Comments

A bacon sandwich and a flat white from Greggs is £3.55. Early Easter Sunday morning, at 8.10am, in I wandered – and ordered. Behind…

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The Secret Sweetshop.

April 16, 2025 No Comments

There’s a little shop in Hexham that I love more than any other. Because even though the person I love most thinks she loved…

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Doctors, engineers and teachers.

April 16, 2025 No Comments

We can read whatever we like into this super little BBC Bitesize survey. It explores the top ten jobs teenagers want when they’re older,…

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I know little about AI. I can spell it. But that’s all right now.

April 15, 2025 No Comments

I’m just about to turn my head towards AI. And peer at it, over there, from over here. Looking it up and down, trustlessly,…

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What the world looks like. To me. From here.

Can a person think themselves to death?

April 13, 2025 No Comments

Izobel asked me, ‘Can a person think themselves to death?’ this week. Funny question for an 8 year old. But also insightful. I said…

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It’s surprising how unsurprising most businesses are, don’t you think?

April 9, 2025 No Comments

It’s surprising how unsurprising most businesses are, don’t you think? Especially because surprising businesses – are memorable businesses. It’s also surprising how unsurprising most…

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Spark.

April 8, 2025 No Comments

If we want people to talk about our business. Let’s spark a conversation about our business. And when we do, let’s make sure it’s…

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