By John Haining on 9 March 2010
Capital is a fickle thing. Well allocated, it helps you deliver returns that are outstanding. When leveraged appropriately you can magnify those returns even further. But all capital is risk capital. And capital has options – in terms of where it’s invested, the risk/return profile and the patience it demonstrates. And capital is broader than [...]
Posted in Capital | Tagged Capital, Depth, Development, Management, Opportunity, People & Talent, relationships, Risk, Value
By John Haining on 6 March 2010
Serendipity plays out in our lives. Few people have found The Three Princes of Serendip (Wikipedia) and understood its message. Common usage allows us to say that serendipity is what happens when we’re looking for one thing, but find something better in the process. The story of the princes is better. It covers the serendipity [...]
Posted in Customers & Clients | Tagged Mindset, Opportunity, Proactive, Results, serendipity
By John Haining on 5 March 2010
As I am working more with the team at Geoff Harrington & Co (GHC) I’m starting to treat this part of my site a lot more like a blog. One of the first things that has my interest is in gathering information about who is out there doing smaller debt and equity transactions on a [...]
Posted in Capital | Tagged Capital, GHC, Opportunity
By John Haining on 9 November 2009
In managing your career or your life you have two main options: focus or diversification. If your career were a game of Trivial Pursuit, would you prefer it if the game was won by collecting pieces that are all of the same colour, or collecting pieces of different colours? These are the options, and getting [...]
Posted in Strategy | Tagged Connections, Diversification, Expert, Focus, Goals, Mastery, Opportunity, Quit, Results
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