Monthly Archives: January 2020

I get asked this a lot at the moment and I think its probably a sad indictment of the state of morale with many nurses. Often people have a great idea for a service or a new social enterprise but don’t know when the right time is to leave. From my experience over the lastContinue reading “How to give up your day job”

What I am about to describe is the EPOCH model which is freely available for you to use under our creative commons licence. It is free so if I doesn’t work you won’t get any cash but I will give you your time back, maybe by coming round and doing some gardening or cleaning yourContinue reading “How the EPOCH business model can increase your turnover”

I am not going to write about generic presentation skills here but presentations that are specifically designed to get someone to give you money. That could be a contract, a sale, a loan, venture capital, a grant, etc. The one thing all of these types of presentation have in common is that at the end,Continue reading “How to present for funding”

Everybody recognizes that failure plays is an important role in innovation but there is a lack of structured advice about how to encourage and use failure in a practical way. Below are some thoughts about how failure can be used in a practical way: 1) Remove the stigma from the word failure Failure is a wordContinue reading “Creating innovation from failure”

There is an enormous amount of interest in how culture can be changed in many aspects of public services and particularly in the NHS. At various times, everyone from policy analysts to politicians, professional associations to patients has highlighted problems in the culture of the NHS and set out an alternative vision of what thatContinue reading “The difficulties of creating culture change in the NHS”

In a knowldege economy your value is dependent on the quality of your thinking and the quality of your decisions. One component of that is coming up with lots of different ideas and that seems to be something many people really struggle with. So here is my 7-step guide to creating a hundred ideas forContinue reading “How to create a hundred ideas”

“So what do you do when your manager is an idiot?” If I had a pint for every nurse I met who felt their boss was an incompetent idiot, I would spend nearly all my waking hours staggering around in a drunken haze. I would go even further and say that most of the nurseContinue reading “What to do when your manager is an idiot”