Six good reasons not to start a business

In this age of entrepreneurial mania, it seems everyone wants to start their own business. There are plenty of arguments why you should. Here’s six reasons why you shouldn’t.

Why you should add some risk to your business or career

Your business or your career can tick along quiet nicely, but are you optimising them? Exploiting untapped business opportunities and building fulfilling careers often means taking a risk. Your challenge is to take some and not take too many.

The best thing about equilibrium? We're never there.

We have this idea that somewhere out there is a place where everything is balanced. There isn't. Managing life and coping with change requires us to be fluid, not static.

Go ahead, disrupt yourself

Responses to disruption vary from fearful avoidance to an unhealthy over-indulgence. To convert our anxieties about invasive innovation, we need to work with it rather than be driven by it.

What innovations work best?

The test of any new idea is not how clever it is. It's whether it makes something easier to do.

Coping with cycles

Just about everything in business is cyclical. Get used to it. Work with it.

Mental toughness and business performance

We can waste a lot of time stressing about things we can't control. What if we focus that energy on the things we can control.

Maintaining Passion

What’s going to be special about this year? You’ll be taking yourself with you, so it’ll be much the same as last year unless you make it different.

If you want to lead, best you don't know everything

Great leaders don't do everything. They get the best people they can find to do all the things that they aren't good at.

Product innovation: Finding new ideas

We tend to think of innovation is somehow new and revolutionary. Yet most successful firms grow at and evolutionary pace. How can you keep at the leading edge of innovation?