Month: February 2008

I completed two score years and ten this past weekend. Coincidentally, last month, on one of my visits while my dad was ill, I walked past the very room where I entered life at the Kingsbury way back in 1958. Back then we had electricity. Of course, we didn’t have much equipment that needed it,…

One of the most interesting things about “business” is the issue of pricing. Not so much the actual price of something, but the strange philosophies that we small business owners hold so dear about the concept of pricing. I got round to thinking about this because I have done far more international flying recently than…

We all learned to write at school. Some of us were better at it than others. Some of us were like budget wine. We matured long after that last grammar lesson was but a distant memory. That’s how it was for me. As a result I receive heaps of useful advice from folk during the…

I buried my Dad on Monday. There wasn’t any electricity. There was a lot of emotion. But, more than anything else, we did the final numbers on his life. For a gentle, humble man who spent his life working for government, my Dad did better than almost anybody I have ever met – entrepreneur like…