Loved speaking at the Entrepreneurs & The Economy panel in Manchester on a business issue critical to many leaders.

Pleased to announce the sale of Queen’s Court in Manchester, a building at the centre of my life for almost two decades.

There's a scene in Back to the Future where Marty McFly arrives in 1955 and watches his father make exactly the same mistakes he'll still be making thirty years later.

Recognise this?

Hard-working leadership team. Headcount up. Revenue moving in the right direction. And yet something is sluggish.

Milestone moment at MJS Partnership 🎉

Delighted to welcome Kiera Walker to the business - our first official employee!

Value creation.
It’s what Jim Ratcliffe is expert in.

His record in building Ineos into a global petrochemical business cannot be denied.

Proud and delighted to announce a new client for MJS Partnership.

We’ve been brought in to advise Talentloop, an exciting and fast-growing business, as it enters the next stage of its growth strategy.

Honoured to announce I'm part of the judging team for this year's APSCo Awards for Excellence.

The Apprentice is back for series 20. And is it just me but I'm utterly indifferent…

I came across a phrase recenty that stopped me in my tracks: “job-hugging.”
People staying put because moving feels too risky.

I’ve been reading recently about business growth: partly through curiosity, partly because I enjoy connecting ideas back to my own experience building, scaling, and selling a company.

People, planning, process. Probably the most important things to drive business growth.

What are the top three things that make a workplace great? And, as a boss, what can you do to deliver them?

Not often 'failure and weakness' is the only item on the agenda. But it was yesterday, and rightly so.

I’m joining Graphite Partners as chairman, working closely with the founder and managing director Max Williamson.

A brilliant afternoon at the APSCo Awards for Excellence. Great to see such talent and creativity in our industry being recognised.

Sometimes you get a blast from the past.

Preparing for a meeting with Graphite Partners got me thinking about my own experiences working with non-executive directors, as well as how to add maximum value as a non-exec chairman.

39% of new recruits leave a job in the UK within six months.

‘Spray and pray chatbots wrecking recruitment’ screams the headline in The Telegraph this morning.

Is recruitment stuck in the 90s — or has ‘rec tech’ really moved things forward?