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Is your business built to last? The primary responsibility of any leadership team is to build and sustain the brand reputation for the organisation or the institution that they lead. If the leadership team is dominated by a single personality, as CEO or President, then the brand reputation is strongly tied to that personality and it becomes harder to build, sustain, and protect it, if that personality damages the brand or leads the organisation in a direction contrary to the

This year I’m planning more frequent posts from your Uncle Ralph , including revision and updates of some of the most popular articles from the past decades. Last week’s post was on Start-up, this week is on Exit Strategies. Many entrepreneurs are at the later stages of their careers and working on their exit strategies.  It’s not a good time to discover that the exit is just as difficult as the start-up. It’s better to have a plan in place before it’s necessary to exit on sh

This year I’m planning more frequent posts from your Uncle Ralph , including revision and updates of some of the most popular articles among the hundreds of the past twenty years.   It seemed appropriate to begin with a reminder of the important issues to consider before starting a new business venture.   Look before you leap I’ve often said, "Starting your own business is a lot like sky-diving – it seems like an exciting idea, but you’re not likely to do it until you’re push

Last year gave us the shock of a world ruled by competing superpowers and the chaos created by an American President who is a ruthless reckless egomaniac exercising his power over the world’s largest economy and greatest military power.   He started negotiations to increase his influence over the world by holding American consumers hostage and demanding they pay their own ransom in the form of punitive tariffs on imports from every country on the planet. The era of globalisat

A challenging year for everyone   It’s been a year of turmoil, disruption, and uncertainty all driven by the volatile and unpredictable President Trump, who has had unconstrained power to indulge his economic theories, selfish greed and egotistical fantasies, and affect international trade, global economies, military and political alliances, and the welfare of tens of millions of ind ividuals in America and around the world.   It's been impossible to ignore the impact on our

Artificial or not?   Everyone everywhere is talking about artificial intelligence – how they use it, what’s so amazing or terrifying about it, how it impacts their own lives now and what it will change for them in the future.   The most common observation is that we now have to be more careful in applying our own intelligence to everything we do. Not only are we doubting the truth in what we see and read, we are also losing confidence in our own expertise.   Our education, tr