Inspiring People – 3

For my third piece on inspirational people I have chosen the most inspiring person I ever worked with in my entire career. His name is Christopher Garnett, and he was the Chief Executive of the railway company GNER in the 1990s and early 2000s. He went on to be...

Inspiring People – 2

There weren’t many inspirational people in my early life, as I have written before. Most of the people who influenced me when I was growing up were negative role models; judgemental, sour, religious people who derived pleasure from catching people doing the...

RIP Patricia Martin

Part of my life story which is as yet unwritten involves what happened when I started to find some other ex-members of the fundamentalist religious cult that I was brought up in. This started to happen when I went on to the internet in 1999. Two of the people that I...

Working at 14 years of age?

Travelling back from a 4Networking breakfast meeting in Dereham this morning I was listening to the car radio where there was a discussion on Digby Jones’ latest idea to introduce young people into the workplace at 14 years of age. Once I had got over my initial...

‘Growing Forward’ now available!

I am very excited to be able to tell you that my first book ‘Growing Forward’ is now available to order online – at the moment in the U.K. only. As soon as I have ascertained how much demand there is from other parts of the world, I will be making...

Drain or Radiator?

It has been a very exciting last few days for me. I received the first copies of my book ‘Growing Forward’, which is currently available personally fromĀ  me, and will be available online and through other media during the next few weeks. I have just...