by Paul Davies | Jun 29, 2018 | Uncategorised
A first caveat is that I’m not sure it is possible to have any book that I completely disagree with. In fact I’ve read some extremely silly books but found some value in each of them – if only that the different perspective usually provokes some thought. As a...
by Paul Davies | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorised
This is a really important question because the answers – and there is more than one – point either to a a brilliant, forward-thinking business brain that has created a real force for betterment or a highly manipulative, cynical exploitation that is a...
by Paul Davies | Jun 2, 2018 | Uncategorised
I always had a soft spot for Aston Martins – ever since as a boy of about 8 or 9 Corgi brought out the James Bond Aston Martin DB 4 (it might have been a DB 5) and I saved up to get it. (Quite expensive in those days, as I remember, certainly compared with my...
by Paul Davies | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
With the launch and publication of Investigative Journalism Today: Speaking Truth to Power, we have entered an argument on one of the really important questions of our day, if you believe, as I do, that a properly free press is actually as important as the rule of law...
by Paul Davies | May 21, 2018 | Uncategorised
The more I thought about this question the more I realised that I don’t think there is a prescription for a sketch to be successful, rather it is the outcome that can be defined. There are components of successful sketches, but what makes a good sketch is its effect....
by Paul Davies | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
We’re living in a world where our trusted sources of news are being subverted in new ways that are silent – but all the more deadly because of that. There has been, for example, over the last eight years a quiet revolution at the BBC and the old BBC Trust, which...
by Paul Davies | May 14, 2018 | Uncategorised
I’ve two maxims that I think might take the pressure off you – and so often it is this self-generated pressure that creates the feeling that your mind is blank (and actually i can’t see that as a bad trait as long as you yourself can recognise it) and that you...
by Paul Davies | May 5, 2018 | Uncategorised
In its original form, Middlemarch was published in 8 bi-monthly instalments from late 1871, which eventually made a four decker novel – as opposed to the standard three decker, that is three volumes. It was received as one of the great novels almost from the...
by Paul Davies | Apr 30, 2018 | Uncategorised
In my consultancy life I worked hard on partnerships and was involved in a fairly significant programme called the Partnership Value Model – which was aimed at larger companies where partnership was required but was tricky or not working. If you think of the...
by Paul Davies | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorised
I always think you should go back to first principles when contemplating creating a business plan and think what is the purpose of it – and then decide whether you need an IT tool. In my experience – thirty years of creating business plans and business...
