Where to make decisions
If decision-making is the primary element of your job, as it is for me, then it’s imperative that you make the best possible decisions, given that your actions are likely [...]
99-year old Tom Moore shouldn’t have needed to do that
Today, legendary Captain Tom Moore opened – virtually – the new nightingale hospital in my hometown of Harrogate. By walking, very slowly, 100 times around his garden, Captain Tom has [...]
Where to work?
Yesterday, I considered the definition of work. Today, my thoughts turn to – where do we do our best work? Running a firm of knowledge workers, I have always been [...]
What is work? Enter: Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Before this crisis, most of us had some sort of work to perform. You might be thinking: what about the retired and the super-rich – surely, they didn’t perform any [...]
Covid healed the Brexit wound
Tonight’s NHS clap on our street was the loudest yet! Accompanying the obligatory clapping and clattering of pans were fireworks and music. Although Dominic Raab’s instruction, just a few hours [...]
Update to self: I am a key worker!
In an earlier blog post entitled Are You Important I declared that the Government did not deem me to be a Key Worker, as that was my reading of the [...]
RIP The British Economy: murdered by bureaucracy
As a small business owner, and as someone who interviews business owners for the The Harrogate Podcast, I fear for our SMEs. Most have been clobbered by COVID. My best [...]
The Key Worker Party?
Whilst it’s the zeitgeist to make for predictions for the post-COVID world (and I have made a few already), here is another. The Key Worker identity is here to stay, [...]
Testing, testing, 1, 2, not 3
In mid-February, I started with a sky-high temperature. After that, I was absolutely shattered for two days. Adhering to governmental instruction, I telephoned 111, and followed their advice: no need [...]
Can I say this? The kids have never been happier
As we roll into our fourth week in lockdown (we started earlier than most because of my wife’s high temperature), my children - 8 and 10 - are the happiest [...]