Low Tech Wind
Being the biggest isn’t of much economic value if others can do what you do just as well. Vestas, the Danish company that can proudly claim to be the…
Copy Richard Branson
Being too much of a specialist is a burden when faced with radical change. If you had been in the railway business, when the first aeroplanes took to the…
Chasing Clouds
Virtual clouds have announced the start of Phase II of the Networked Era: good news for Lenovo, but what about HP, IBM and Dell? If you haven’t heard of Lenovo,…
The Mathew Effect
The easiest way to achieve success with your business, or your career, is to make the most of what you have. In 1968, sociologist Robert Merton wrote a paper which…
The Benefits of Smoking
Cigarettes will always be a poor man’s burden. When I worked on oil rigs in the North Sea I met a tool pusher, a senior bod on any drilling…
East of Minnetonka
Is Cargill suffering more from poor leadership than it is from the failure of its trading instincts? Yes, there is a place called Minnetonka; in Minnesota, predictably enough. It…
Black & Yellow
Can Manganese Bronze fend off Nissan? Have you ever wondered how New York ended up with its yellow cabs? I’m taller than most, so I may be speaking just for…
Shakespeare’s Veolia
Aren’t utilities supposed to be boring? Surely, not even William Shakespeare could have made up such a fanciful tale as this. Wouldn’t you have thought that running a water utility…
What’s Next?
Is Next’s business model strong enough to survive the next half of the Networked Era? I bought my first suit from a Hepworth’s store in Dartmouth in Devon, from Mr…
My Favourite Small Business
Raindrops on roses are ok, but the Games Workshop is definitely one of My Favourite Things. I have several motivations for writing these business commentaries: in part they define me…
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