Here’s the thing. Men get a raw deal. I know, I know, diddums. Women look after the house and home, manage the household budget, give birth, usually cook and clean and are more readily judged by age and appearance. All men have to do is be the...
So football nearly came home, eh? Will any credit ever go to one of its chief architects? With the echo of Baddiel and Skinner’s famous anthem still ringing in the nation’s ears from Euro 96, the man who modernised English football in 1997 charted a course that...
...And, if not, why they should Ask most businesses if the customers comes first and the answer is always ‘yes’. But drill down deeper and often that isn’t the case. For starters, too many of us are poor at acquiring customers – often opting for a blunderbuss approach...
Like many ideas The Radical Rethink was born out of a sense of mission and frustration. Rolling back 12 months to our first ever meeting in July 2020 as England emerged from what we assumed would be its one and only lockdown (hmm…) we sought to...
Being a disruptive type is rarely good in life but can have positive benefits in business. Standing out from the crowd is always important yet too many businesses rely on the safety of the pack, hoping to snaffle a share of business simply by being like...
So how green is your valley - or rather your household and/or business? How close do you adhere to the environmental three R’s – reduce, reuse and recycle? What about planes, trains and automobiles? What does the thud of your carbon footprint do to the planet and...
“I sculpt cars but now I want to shape my own crafts business.” “My brother died in a disaster so now I want to set up a charity for people who have lost siblings.” “I run an ethical accountancy practice because I believe in sustainability.” We all have...
As we ease our way out of lockdown three has the way we enjoy our leisure time fundamentally changed forever after Covid? I mean more than marching down the pub for an impromptu pint - but watching and playing sport, going to the theatre, cinema and...
“They should have come to me – I’d have given them chapter and verse.” I’m sitting with a guy claiming to be an expert in his field and he’s having a right old moan about media coverage of a subject he knows well. “What have you done...
In the first Covid lockdown last spring, I opened our front door one morning to find a small painted stone on the doorstep. On one side was a shiny red heart, on the other the words ‘Stay safe x’. I’ve no idea who placed the stone there...