Steve Black www.steveblack.co.uk the bearded Geordie who has used his innovative skills to train, coach & prepare successful teams from all backgrounds is described, amongst other things, as a motivator, coach, psychologist, priest, councillor, psychiatrist, comedian, strategist, facilitator, and friend. His background has encompassed organising nightclub security, a spell as a professional boxer and a degree inContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 5. Blackie”
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Top 7 Tips for designing your website.
I acknowledge that this came from Chris Barrow during his time working with Breathe Business. I apply the old Round Table motto of “Adopt, Adapt, Improve” to lots of things in my life; another way of saying that is “Don’t attempt to reinvent the wheel but it’s OK to try and give it better tyres.”Continue reading “Top 7 Tips for designing your website.”
The Monday Morning Quote #6
“Character is doing the right thing when nobody is looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that’s right is to get by, and the only thing that’s wrong is to get caught.” J.C.Watts
The Weekend Read: 4. Creative Visualisation
My book of the week is a real wacky bo****ks, tree hugging affair, it was probably the first ‘self-improvement’ book that I bought and probably one of the very best. It came from a little alternative (or so I thought) bookshop in London whilst I was studying the Cranio-Sacral Complex at the British School ofContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 4. Creative Visualisation”
The Soul Biographies
Nic Askew the film maker has just launched the Soul Biographies a series of short films which carry on the spirit that he created with monday9am. This is the first film it’s called: Portrait of a Human Being
Pit Stop Innovation – The Handover
http://www.e-myth.com/cs/user/print/post/innovation-operation-pit-stop This is not new research and has, no doubt, surfaced several times in the newspapers since it was first published. It highlights one of the key aspects of any sort of patient / customer journey – the handover. No footballing team would dream of starting a game without practicing how to pass the ball,Continue reading “Pit Stop Innovation – The Handover”
Three Insights
One of my favourite writers on the subject of solo entrepreneurship is Molly Gordon www.mollygordon.com This is from a recent ezine and I hope will help those who have doubts about their marketing ever bearing fruit. Three Insights 1) You never know when a seed you’ve planted will take root. Your job as an Accidental EntrepreneurContinue reading “Three Insights”
The Monday Morning Quote #3
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. He who strives valiantly;Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #3”
The Weekend Read: 1. How to win friends and influence people.
The book that The Guardian calls: “The grandaddy of all management books”. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. I am amazed that there are people who haven’t yet read this slim volume. Published first in 1937 it is as relevant today as it was then. I regret that I didn’t botherContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 1. How to win friends and influence people.”
The Monday Morning Quote #2
As a very wise patient once said to me: “If you tell me about something before you start it’s an explanation, if you tell me about it after it has happened it’s an excuse.”
The Incisal Edge 