consulting life

I visualise the one person business as a garden. An ecosystem that you get to design, grow and hopefully enjoy spending time in every season! Areas that need nurturing at different times include:🍴Dining area (people & network)🥕Veg patch (reliable income streams)🌷Flower bed (less well paid more enjoyable work)🛝Play area (new ideas & experiments)📙... See more

With an idiosyncratic outlook and skill set, the power weirdo — and its subset, the gonzo futurist — is particularly well-placed to deal with a turbulent decade. With an eye on the road ahead, she can meet or dodge situations as they arise, charting a clear course through the VUCA battlefields of a turboparalytic world.

You don’t get there by acculturating. Don’t become a well-rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and dull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Grow spikes from every angle. Stick in their throats like a puffer fish.’ (Sterling, 1991)

In the immortal words of Hunter S. Thompson, ‘when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.