Chapter 30 Norman Guiver From a surname to a verb A private investor who allegedly assaulted a chief executive by kneeing him in the groin at an annual general meeting is to be prosecuted by the company after a landmark legal ruling. High Court judge Lord Justice Rose said the company, Gladstone, could bring the […]

14th February 2014 It’s hard to believe that five years ago we lost our office to a sixty-foot tree which decided to fall directly onto the bothy, reducing it from four metres in height to just three foot. The tree went straight through Jon and David’s desk, we thank our lucky stars we weren’t in

Chapter 29 Steve Jobs has often been described, and rightly so in my humble opinion, as one of the best entrepreneurs ever. I have listed the first of ten things that Steve Jobs is reported to have done so you can decide for yourself whether these are actions of a human, chimp or psychopath Steve

Chapter 28 Recognising when a chimp is in control and using it to your advantage I may have painted a picture in this book that the human side of you is the good guy and the chimp or psychopath is the bad guy, but that’s not always the case. They are just different sides of

Chapter 27 Using reflection to decipher whether you have been a chimp or human One of the elements I have learnt in recent years is to control speed, not necessarily when driving but when thinking.   Accepting that the limbic part of the brain, where the chimp resides, gets the blood supply first, the quick

Chapter 26 That old ’80/20′ chestnut As a motorcyclist I understand that to enjoy a good ride, a ride that doesn’t lead to the pain of falling off, requires balance, leaning over, essentially, half falling off a bike to get round the corner but not so much so that skin meets tarmac. I believe the

Chapter 24 The Psychopath test Skilling, Maxwell and Goodwin all demonstrated a significant number of psychopathic traits, clearly the balance between their human, chimp and psychopath brain wasn’t right and the chimp and psychopath ruled, which ultimately led to their downfall. The Psychopathy Checklist (PCL) is a twenty item checklist of perceived personality traits and

Chapter 24 Fred ‘the Shred’ Goodwin Fred Goodwin was the son of an electrician and the first person in his family to go to University, where he studied law at Glasgow University. His work at Touche Ross got him noticed when he was involved in the due diligence on the takeover of Clydesdale Bank by

Chapter 23 Albert J. Dunlap Dunlap was a ‘professional downsizer’ and he was best known as a runaround specialist, attracting nicknames such as “Chainsaw Al” and “Rambo in Pinstripes” and is now considered one of the first corporate psychopaths He was ruthless and his route from A to B was always a straight line, irrespective

Excerpt from Chapter 22 Robert Maxwell   Jan Ludvik Hyman Binyamin Hosh, otherwise known as Ian Robert Maxwell was born into poverty in Czechoslovakia. He escaped Nazi occupation by joining the Czechoslovak Army and then the British Army. After the war he worked at Pergamon Press building it into a major publishing house. After a