Archive for March, 2026

Times Like These

Thursday, March 26th, 2026

What are you doing in your business to turn current national and international volatility and disruption into attack? Clients feeling the force of oil, energy and fertilizer supply chain disruption and dramatic overhead rises, wildly swinging forecasts of lower to rising costs of capital, private credit gaiting and stress, AI-driven job losses, US government intervention in marine insurance, the increasing forecasts of stagflation in major global economies etc.

As the 2002-version of Dave Grohl’s hit record “Times Like These“, pronounced a return to hope, giving and loving, what are you doing right now to

  1. help your clients learn to live again (risk-taking decisions)
  2. give new and high-value reciprocal help (leads, insights and ideas)
  3. make them love you again (creating sticky clients and increased loyalty).

If the answer is not clear perhaps your strongest competitors are building a hidden advantage in the next 12 months? Can you afford the risk?

Checking In

Monday, March 23rd, 2026

A reminder today talking to a friend and business acquaintance separated from his family while working in Abu Dhabi after 3 weeks of sporadic missile alerts on his phone, and a constant need to quickly take “cover”.

The power of “checking in” on others’ wellbeing remains vastly underrated.

The sound of a familiar voice, offers of help with no expectations in return or sharing a little humour, are invaluable.

Who does this remind you that you promised yourself to call but haven’t for whatever reason? Why delay any further?

Good Judges

Monday, March 16th, 2026

There are individuals, who exude confidence in their opinions but are rarely accurate with other people’s money (incompetent). Others with uncommon accuracy, who rarely exude confidence with their own money (timid). There are a tiny handful of outliers, individuals who BOTH exude confidence and display uncommon accuracy with their own money (courageous and shrewd).

The ability to triage judges, and build a peer-level trusting relationship with the consistently courageous and shrewd judges (support system), is often a more important predictor of success (business advice and investing) than the actual investment decision taken.

Who are you listening to and why are they ideal for your challenge?