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Excerpt from Chapter 21 Jeffrey Skilling   Jeffrey Keith Skilling is the former CEO of the Enron Corporation who was convicted of federal felony charges following the collapse of the energy company in 2006. He was sentenced to 24 years in jail and fined a staggering $53m. Skilling facilitated accounting manipulation and deception about earnings […]

Excerpt from Chapter 20 The Amygdala gland “One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the Amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience.”  Bukhard Bilger   The Amygdala gland is located deep in the temporal lobes of

Excerpt from Chapter 19 The Psychopath “I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.” Jon Ronson, The Psychopath Test     Psychopathy is also known as sociopathy, which is traditionally defined as a personality disorder

Excerpt from Chapter 18 The Company Merger “Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” ― Benito Mussolini     Mergers are a constant, promises made by company Chief Executives or owners to double the size of the company by buying their competitor, seems a bit

Excerpt from Chapter 17 The human needs purpose “He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche     Money is very important, but for a human, it is not the be all and end all, it is only important to be paid enough to take the issue

Excerpt from Chapter 16 The Chimp needs money “Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.” Clare Boothe Luce   The chimp in the jungle has three primary drivers: to procreate; to stay alive and to provide shelter. By bringing those drivers into society, two of the three

Excerpt from Chapter 15 The Office Bully “Bookworms are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.” ― Alberto Manguel   The office bully looks for troop approval through fear, believing that to manage the troop they have to act as an alpha male. It isn’t necessarily the boss

Excerpt from Chapter 14 Recognising co-workers “Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company.  The safest approach is to remove all useful information” ― Scott Adams   Half the battle is recognising when the chimp is in control of you, the other half is recognising when the

Business Continuity Seminar 5th September 2018   In 2014 we lost our office. Our working environment was obliterated overnight after two trees fell onto our office and crushed it.  We never thought for a moment that it would happen to us, but it did, and I will be talking about on 5th September at Weatherbys Conference

Excerpt from Chapter 13 The “hobby” business model   “Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.” ― Neil Strauss   There are signs that will indicate whether a business owner has created and is growing a business, or whether they have created a vessel for