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Love, Pain and Money by John Caudwell Book Review
This is the autobiography by the Phones4U billionaire, John Caudwell. The book takes you from his birth in Stoke-on-Trent all the way through to becoming a self-made billionaire and covers his childhood, the many business ventures and his complex love life!!
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Lessons from the Entrepreneurs Convention – Part 1
Last month I attended an event with some great entrepreneurial speakers and lots of updates and lessons in the world of business. There was so much content that I am going to split it into two parts with this being part 1 and part 2 will follow next month. In this…
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Book Review of ‘The Winning Mindset’ by Professor Damian Hughes
This book is written by Professor Damian Hughes who you may also recognise from the High-Performance Podcast and an author alongside Jake Humphrey of the book High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best. How to create The Winning Mindset Hughes starts by asking ‘How do you create…
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Why External Advice is So Important!
As many of you will know the Snowball company name comes from a book by arguably the greatest investor of all time, Warren Buffett, and one of his famous quotes, and there are many, is ‘Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing’. In other words, you bring higher, and…
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Marginal Gains and Winners
Many people will have heard of Sir Dave Brailsford, who is a real pioneer of the ‘Marginal Gains’ movement. It really came to the fore when Brailsford was the Performance Director of the Sky cycling team. Definition of Marginal Gains His definition of marginal gains is centred around the idea…
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Bank of England – You’re Fired!!
Why did the economist bring a crystal ball to work? Because even though they’re always predicting, they figured they might as well use a tool that’s just as accurate!!! Bit tongue in cheek, but also unfortunately true. The economists and the so-called experts at the Bank of England have a…
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Book Review – ‘Single-Minded’ by Claude Littner
The book review this month is ‘Single-Minded: My Life in Business’, the story of Claude Littner, who is best known as the sharp talking interviewer Lord Sugar uses on The Apprentice to grill his candidates. Littner is excellent at the one-liners and bringing out any errors, lies or gaps in…
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Atomic Habits by James Clear Book Review
Atomic Habits by James Clear explores the power of tiny changes in order to achieve remarkable results. He delves into the science and psychology behind habits, offering practical strategies and examples to build and break habits effectively. Atomic = (i) an extremely small amount of a thing; the single irreducible…
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Warren Buffet Thoughts
I have spoken before about Warren Buffett and his legendary annual letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway. Buffett is now in his 81st year of being an investor, and has been, and continues to be one of the most successful investors of all time. He and his business partner…
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