As you may know from a previous blog back in the summer I've been working on some EEUK-funded research exploring so-called Threshold Concepts in Entrepreneurial Thinking. Well, Dr Lucy Hatt and I finished our work and wrote it all up as a toolkit for other educators to use! You can find the whole toolkit here … Continue reading Threshold Concepts in Entrepreneurial Thinking – The Toolkit for Educators

Last month I gave a talk to SME business leaders and managers in Hereford on behalf of NMITE. NMITE is a start-up university (two of my favourite words!) and well worth checking out for an innovative approach to Higher Education. They'd approached me to add some innovation content that would resonate for their audience and … Continue reading Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Innovation

For the last year Dr Lucy Hatt and I have been working with my colleagues, students, and a group of distinguished entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship champions at the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CfIE) at the University of Bristol to identify and synthesise a series of CfIE Threshold Concepts for understanding Entrepreneurial Thinking. The work has … Continue reading Threshold Concepts for Entrepreneurial Thinking

This is the sixth in my series of blogs on the ‘Bonfire with Soul’ course I did courtesy of Duke Stump and the Do Lectures late in 2020. This is about the fifth of the twelve principles that Duke shared and illustrated through a 15-minute video synopsis and then a 45-minute video of a call … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs #5

This is the fifth in my series of blogs on the ‘Bonfire with Soul’ course I did courtesy of Duke Stump and the Do Lectures late in 2020. This is about the fourth of the twelve principles that Duke shared and illustrated through a 15-minute video synopsis and then a 45-minute video of a call … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs #4

This is the fourth in my series of blogs on the ‘Bonfire with Soul’ course I did courtesy of Duke Stump and the Do Lectures late in 2020. This is about the third of the twelve principles that Duke shared and illustrated through a 15-minute video synopsis and then a 45-minute video of a call … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs #3

This is the third in my series of blogs on the ‘Bonfire with Soul’ course I did courtesy of Duke Stump and the Do Lectures late in 2020. This is about the second of the twelve principles that Duke shared and illustrated through a 15-minute video synopsis and then a 45-minute video of a call … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs #2

This is the second in my series of blogs on the ‘Bonfire with Soul’ course I did courtesy of Duke Stump and the Do Lectures late in 2020. This is about the first of the twelve principles that Duke shared and illustrated. Each principle was explored as a 15-minute video synopsis from Duke and then … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs #1

At the tail-end of last year I took an online course – ‘Bonfire with Soul’ (‘Bonfire’ in this context is a kind of team-meeting) through the folk at the Do Lectures. Why? I was already crazy busy and running on fumes after one of the most draining years of my life, so why also take … Continue reading Bonfire Blogs: Introduction

I have finally read the Steve Jobs biography by Walter Isaacson over the last couple of weeks. It is really good and highly recommended reading for anyone with an interest in entrepreneurship, technology, or design. I am not entirely sure why it took me so long to get round to reading it - but it … Continue reading Jobs Done