Month: January 2019
-
Here’s one thing you can be certain about in 2019
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” (Yogi Berra and others). January is the month for pundits to place their best bets for the year. We need not go very far though these days to know what nonsense those bets usually amount to. In respect of outlooks and outcomes for 2019 the bookies…
-
True grit: does it always work to your advantage?
“Never give in, never give in, never, never, never” Winston Churchill I’ve always been inspired by persistence. When you fall down, you get back up again. Yet a fact based argument in the much respected Harvard Business Review challenges this idea. Cass Business School’s professor Andre Spicer says that there’s in fact a “weak link…