I’ve always wanted to write about this business issue. Over the last 10 years, I’ve suffered from busyness, especially as my business has grown and more and more colleagues have joined our team. In my 20s, I read a lot of business books which taught that to build a successful business, you had to find a way to always keep your door open to whoever comes to talk to you – no matter who they are and no matter what they want. Read more
How can you know when you need to stop being persistent and give up your business?
In the last 10 years, I have been asked the question “Should I still persist in my business?” a couple of thousand times. Having participated directly in the startup of many businesses, both in the UK and overseas – and indirectly, in another hundreds more around the world – my opinion is that there is no right or wrong answer to this question. The vast majority of business professionals who write about businesses prefer to talk about how to set up and grow a business rather than when to give up. Read more