by Simon Moran | Nov 11, 2019 | Personal
We have been on our travels again. October saw us in Frankfurt, for the Book Fair, promoting our materials, working with friends and making new ones. It’s always a fun time, but the spaces in the aisles hint at changes in the distribution of print. From there we flew...
by Simon Moran | Oct 14, 2019 | Business
As I write this article, one Sam Fender, of North Shields in the north-east of England, is number one in the album charts in the UK. Sam went to a high school in my hometown, then joined the sixth form at my old high school. He has talked about how a teacher at his...
by Simon Moran | Oct 7, 2019 | Business
I come from the northeast of England and went to school there until 1985. Many readers of this blog will have gone to school elsewhere, and will be much younger than I am. I’m 52 at the time of writing. I’ve developed a lot since I left school, so has institutional...
by Simon Moran | Sep 30, 2019 | Business
There is a long list of successful businesspeople who have either dropped out of high school, college or university, or didn’t go in the first place. In the U.S. this famously includes Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Steven Spielberg, who all dropped out...
by Simon Moran | Sep 23, 2019 | Business
The 11 O-Levels I gained from my compulsory education were English language, English literature, maths, additional maths, physics, chemistry, Latin, history, AST, general studies and computer studies. The necessary skills and traits for business listed last time were:...
