by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Nov 7, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
One of us had the great honour of a riveting conversation last week with 87 year old Josef. He told the story of how, living in a small village outside Munich, he’d witnessed his family home invaded by Sturm Abteilung (SA Brown Shirts), his father was taken prisoner...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jul 26, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
It’s official (well, official with an ish) because we don’t talk about money, we’re amongst another two thirds who are reluctant to chit chat away or phone a friend about finance. Call us old fashioned but we were brought up to never discuss such things as ‘how much...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | May 31, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Business is ‘terrible’, we learnt today, from someone we’d worked with. ‘It’s hardly better than last year’. ‘Great!’ Was our response, as we waited for this individual’s usual stoic resolve and general philosophy to give us their punch line. ‘And how was last...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 13, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
This week we’ve mostly been to Europe, USA and Australia. Our Sonic Adventure began and ended with a phone call, a wanderlust wonder completed in four days during which we visited 3 of the 7 continents, approximately some 29 from 300,000 cities, heard, not...
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Sep 22, 2010 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Miscellaneous, Outside the Box, Uncategorized
It is said that a herder in Caffa, Ethiopia, was so intrigued when he found his goats dancing that he too decided to try the red cherries they had eaten and sure enough he too started dancing. The red beans were taken to a local monastery, however, believing the...
