Blogs

Do SMEs hold the key to the workforce of the future?

Welcome to the first Growth Mindset of 2026. The start of the year often brings a sharper focus on how work, technology and organisations are operating. T...

Thinking about a NED role? Read this first

This is one of those rare weeks where the work calendar loosens its grip. The inbox is quieter, the pressure lifts and there’s room to read simply because...

The one-person billion-dollar company, stress-tested

There’s a growing temptation to believe that scale is now mostly a tooling problem – more automation, more agents, more optimisation. But scratch beneath...

The brand growth myth that just got debunked

Every so often, a run of ideas lands that makes you rethink things you thought you understood. This week delivered a handful of those: about how brands gr...

52 ideas you’ll be sharing by lunchtime

My calendar says the year is winding down; my workload strongly disagrees. If you’re also juggling strategy decks, budget conversations and the occasional...

The AI research finding everyone should know

As we slide into the month of parties, catch-ups and questionable office prosecco, I know plenty of you are still head-down making sure the business finis...

Is this the end of private equity’s rapid-exit era?

Read time: 4.5 mins Compiling this newsletter is one of the most enjoyable things I do each week, not least because it lets me wander through wildly diffe...

Want to make your company sellable? Start here

Read time: 4.5 mins Welcome to this week’s edition of Growth Mindset. What keeps surfacing for me lately isn’t a single theme, but a pattern: people quiet...

What fine wine can teach us about pricing power

I’ve learned the hard way that the fastest way to lose focus is to chase shiny things – whether it’s a hyped app, a new SaaS tool or the ‘bold pivot’ that...