Learning

Martin Brundle has a phrase he deploys with surgical precision during Formula 1 broadcasts: "a day late and a dollar short." He uses it when a driver attempts a defensive move too late, or commits to an overtake half-heartedly. The gap has closed. The opportunity has passed. And worse, the hesitation has telegraphed weakness to every other driver on the grid. Business is no different. The difference is that instead of losing a position on lap 34, we lose teams, opportunities,

A year ago, I wrote my first post on my website. I had no sense of where it would lead. I was simply trying to get thoughts out of my head and onto the page. It was not natural, I had to force it out. Why? I still don't understand why at that moment I thought this was something worth doing. Surprising still, I dont know how I stuck with it. What forcing myself to write and publish has since taught me is that many of my ideas stand tall when they live in my mind, but the momen

Free advice gets consumed casually. Nodded at. Rarely acted on. When you give advice away freely, you teach people an unhelpful lesson.That your thinking required no effort. When someone pays (quantum being irrelevant) for your opinion, your words are taken far more seriously. They listen. They question. And act on it. Putting a premium on your opinion, contrary to popular belief, isn’t arrogance. It signals: This perspective was earned. This insight was shaped by mistakes. T