Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Showing posts with label education. Show all posts
Friday, January 3, 2025

after 20 years, it's time to go to the toilet

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My business is 20 years old. 20 years! Only about 10% of enterprises that start-up get this far.  To put this in perspective - when I starte...
Wednesday, September 6, 2023

why not being an academic means university students get more benefit from my teaching

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Over the last 25 years or so, I've found myself approached from time to time to speak as a guest / associate lecturer within within vari...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

the impact of a pandemic on the impact we create

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Some of you reading this will be aware that for the last 15 years, I've annually published an 'impact report' on my activities a...
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Tuesday, March 2, 2021

spreading some 'polite anarchy' (and pretending to spider-man)

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Bit of a different post, this one (just to warn you). I was recently interviewed as part of an ongoing podcast series ( which is hosted on y...
Wednesday, April 8, 2020

becoming deaf, dumb, and blind, during the lock-down

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Nearly all of us are currently subject to a national 'lock-down' during an unprecedented pandemic. And all of us are responding i...
Thursday, March 19, 2020

why I go quiet on social media in times of pandemic

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Unless you've been a contestant in a Big Brother House, everyone in the world is currently united in fear about the Corona-virus and Co...
Monday, July 1, 2019

why do we keep insisting on keeping social and 'regular' entrepreneurs apart, when both have the same sh!t to deal with..?

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In my experience of supporting various start-up programmes throughout the UK over the last 20 years, and having walked alongside many for p...
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Thursday, March 28, 2019

the joy of lunchtime lectures

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I recently attended a lunchtime lecture - now, don't run off just yet... I know it's not the most thrilling of openings, but bear w...
Monday, December 31, 2018

what I did in 2018 that got me noticed (in trouble?) the most...

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It's that time of the year when a lot of people are starting to share their retrospectives of the last 12 months - greatest hits type p...
Thursday, November 22, 2018

too prudish or too offensive?

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As a freelancer, I have a lot more freedom than my employed counterparts (something that I've used over the years to challenge and chan...
Monday, January 15, 2018

microbizmatters day - 1 down, 364 to go...

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Last week saw the 4th annual #MicroBizMatters Day - a day long live stream on youtube of interviews, performances, challenges, and encoura...
Monday, September 18, 2017

"ain't nothing like a Dame", forgotten legacies, and growing lettuces in space... (the future of the co-op movement from a regional perspective)

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I was recently invited back to my old stomping ground of Cambridge to speak at the Regional Co-op Council 's annual conference  ...
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Friday, May 19, 2017

not just for a Sunday..?

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While I've never been an 'in your face' type of person when it comes to my personal faith and beliefs, I've never made a se...
Monday, September 26, 2016

debt, decommissioning, and death - the dark side of social entrepreneurship...

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As a sector, social enterprise always seems to be talking about upbeat and positive stories - you never really hear about chief execs runni...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

my alternative (social) entrepreneurs' A-Z

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It’s all Chris Lee and Liam Black’s fault. If they hadn’t started their ‘entrepreneur’s A to Z’s, I’d have happily sailed on, but somet...