One million RedBalloon experiences delivered Today is momentous, for me personally and for the amazing RedBalloon team. Today, RedBalloon is celebrating the sale of a million RedBalloon experiences. It seems like yesterday that I launched RedBalloon (during the dot...
What To Wear To Work I was reading an article recently in HR Daily about what to wear to work. Kind of interesting that it is a topic of discussion in an HR publication. My first job when I graduated from university, as a naive young graduate (1984) was with IBM (in...
How To Be A Breakthrough Company I’m just back from a holiday break with the family. It was great to rest and rejuvenate… to take in a few experiences too. Jet Ski Ocean Adventure – I’d never been on a jet ski before – the kids loved it! Also had fantastic fun...
How To Find Inspiration Facing a blank page, a lack of creativity and a deadline for a blog, I always ask myself how to find inspiration. This leads to the following questions: “What is going on for me right now? Is it interesting for anyone else? What am I...
Female Leaders Presenting to 150 fifteen-year-old girls is probably one of the tougher gigs that I have had. Not helped by the fact that my daughter said, just before I left home, “Don’t be embarrassing – they really aren’t interested at...
Is there an entrepreneur gene? The whole concept of Entrepreneurship is interesting but are they born or are they created? The entrepreneur gene as it were. Why does one person risk it all to do something differently – whilst another dream but never acts, and...
One of my favourite topics is employee engagement. I have worked for some really great bosses – I have also worked for some terrible one’s in my 15 years of corporate life before I started my own show. So I have been both a boss and an employee – I...
I have used this mantra for years – always believing that I was the starting point for my own destiny. A friend recently asked me to ready Napoleon Hill ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and I liked this poem written in the book but there is no reference as to who...
