by Admin | Jan 29, 2019 | Blog & Case Studies, Creative & Cultural, Growing my Company, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
After leaving school I studied theatre and music and went on to work for several years as an opera singer in the UK and abroad. Soon after gaining a good understanding of how the theatre business works, I started producing my own shows and transitioned from performing...
by Admin | Nov 15, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Creative & Cultural, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
“It is better to be extraordinary and fail, then try to be ordinary and succeed.” So says Dan Holloway, whose day job might conjure images of methodical plodding rather than outlandish creativity: Holloway is the Head of Administration and Finance in Oxford’s Faculty...
by Admin | May 29, 2018 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Creative & Cultural, Exploring Opportunities, Oxford, People & Organisations, Personalised
Something I’ve never forgotten was an interview with the incredibly prolific author Alexander McCall Smith. The interview rattled off a list of things McCall Smith had done in the recent past and asked him how he managed to do all that. His answer was simple: “I don’t...
by Admin | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Consumer & Retail, Creative & Cultural, Developing an Idea or Early Stage, Education & Knowledge, Finance, General, Health & Wellbeing, IT & Digital, Science & Technology
Consumer & Retail TED Talks: Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating With beautiful insight, Gilbert reflects on why success can be as disorientating as failure and offers a simple – though hard – way to carry on, regardless of...
by Admin | Dec 24, 2017 | Articles & Information, Blog & Case Studies, Business Basics, Creative & Cultural, Exploring Opportunities, General
The poet Keats talked about a special quality of attention that enabled him to see the world differently and turn that into creative expression. He called it negative capability and described it as a state of being “when a man is capable of being in uncertainties,...
by Admin | Nov 3, 2017 | Creative & Cultural, Entrepreneurs Uncovered, People & Organisations
Helen Wright is the Founder and Director of 9-2-3, specialising in placing high quality professional candidates into jobs with flexible hours; to help them have a work/life balance that makes them most productive, and to address the skills shortage that many...
