Posts Tagged ‘rags to wreckages’

How JK Rowling used failure as her bedrock for future success
Neil Lewis on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010JK Rowling, author of the Harry Potter series, talks about how failure in career, marriage and financially, led her to focus on the one area in which she was truly equipped to succeed.
She says that had she not experienced the failure, she might never have gone on to write one the worlds’s most popular series of books.

5 Ways to Avoid Small Business Failure and Innovate
Neil Lewis on Thursday, August 5th, 2010Hurrah! There has been a shift in business thinking!
Stock investors have rediscovered Warren Buffett’s investment principle of ‘never lose money’ and entrepreneurs are now focused on how to avoid small business failure, rather than searching for growth at all costs.
We need to learn how to avoid small business failure and so that your business has time and space to innovate.

Dear Successful Entreprenuers – A warning…
Neil Lewis on Thursday, December 3rd, 2009Dear successful entrepreneurs,
Here is my warning…
Just remember if you do employ traditionally (and ignore the freelance model), here is what you will be paying for sooner or later…
University of Chester Business School, Presentation 1st Oct
Neil Lewis on Tuesday, October 6th, 2009Neil Lewis presented the thoughts behind Rags to Wreckages to an audience of entrepreneurs and academics at the Univeristy of Chester Business School on 1st Oct 2009. Asked the question, “what advice would you give a young graduate entrepreneur looking to start out in business“, he shared three key and controversial principles from Rags to [...]
