by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Jan 21, 2012 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
3 Degrees C. Almost tropical compared to conditions faced by Shackleton. A UK chilly winter morning reminder of the decision, almost 103 years to the day, ‘it was better to be a living donkey than a dead lion’; winter clothing layers were required. Shackleton’s circumstances were different, having ventured furthest towards the South Pole than [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Mar 29, 2011 | Blog, Business, Economy, Finance, Financial Markets, Management, Miscellaneous, Uncategorized
Sometime in the 80’s, John left school and started general jobbing for a local builder. By the early part of the 21st Century he’d worked through the slowdown of the 90’s and had his own small construction business, employed several people and did some property development. A tidy business, but it didn’t manage to [...]
by Step-Up Finance (Business) | Dec 14, 2009 | Blog, Business, Outside the Box
And now the end is near, the end of the year and the end of a decade, also the first line to one of the Nations favourite pieces of funeral music: Frank Sinatra’s My Way. Being as we are always, in financial terms, bringing up the need to plan for best effect, we thought [...]
