Many of you will have of heard of Malcolm Gladwell's '10,000-hour rule' in his book Outliers. He wrote that if you practised whatever,...

A Growth Mindset is such a valuable asset to have in this fast changing and challenging world. We all start out life with a growth...

This press release caught my eye. 

A bank is investing in, but not acquiring, a privately owned multi-family office. Interesting!

We...

A boss that only hires the young from rich families (and we are not talking about their own family business).

It is an interesting and...

Only 30 percent of family-owned businesses make it through the second generation according to research undertaken back in 1987, but...

In the article below is a story or two of a boss making some poor decisions. Admittedly, they are not life or death decisions but...

I write with the experience of setting up a single family office and note the comments made in the article below.

A family office is...

In the modern world it is easy for images to be shared on social networks, but how do you ensure the integrity of the brand when it is...

As many families with family businesses in the developed world worry about succession issues, family constitutions, how much the dividend...

Corporate Culture - this is a really good review of culture in organisations. If you are looking for somebody to carry out a Culture...

Great to see an entrepreneurial spark in the next generation and as is often the case, time passes on, yet the next generation migrate...

Claudia Hammond presents the history of psychology series which examines the work of the people who have changed our understanding of the...

Carol Dweck is one of the leading experts on Mindset and it is interesting to see that she has now just completed a more detail bit of...

Resilience is defined as "the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness." 

Some of the most successful people in life...

“There is nothing permanent except change”

Why are some people more successful and content in life than others? The answer is their...

An early established fear of failure at school can influence students’ motivation to learn and negatively affect their attitude to...

“I’ve learnt more in 4 days than the whole of my first year of university” 

Comment from an attendee

In July 2016, I ran Close...

I agree with many of things mentioned in the article below about Generation Y (Gen Y) and the sense of entitlement that is appearing with...

This is an interesting article and piece of research out of the US on mixed gender teams and decision-making.

We see when we run team...

Such is the increase in the number of new single family offices (SFO) appearing all over the world; it can not be long before the...