Spotting the Problems Others Miss: 5 Lessons From a Researcher Who Built a Career on It
Most problems don’t announce themselves. They sit quietly in places people have already learned to work around: a missing bench, an unmarked boundary, a corridor nobody thought to shorten. By the time something is officially “a problem”, someone has usually been living inside it for years. Spotting the problems others miss is a discipline […]
Dr Yasmin Garcia-Sterling: Why the Best Places Are Designed Around People | Unfiltered with Brij Thankey Episode 4
Looking at Dr Yasmin Garcia-Sterling’s career on paper, it would be easy to assume she changed direction several times. She started as a beauty therapist, worked in a children’s hospice supporting some of the most vulnerable families in the country, studied business at Brunel, then took a master’s and a PhD at UCL, researching […]
Deals You Should Walk Away From: What Bad Deals Actually Teach You
Most founders have at least one deal they should have walked away from. A deal that did not feel right during the negotiation, that they persuaded themselves into, that turned out to be exactly as complicated as their instinct said it would be. The details vary. The pattern of deals you should walk away from […]
Founder vs CEO: The Transition Nobody Prepares You For But Actually Matters
The founder vs CEO transition is one of the least discussed inflexion points in business and one of the most consequential. When you start a business, you are the business. You sell it, deliver it, manage it, and make every decision about it. It becomes more than a role and becomes a state of being. […]
Trust as a Commercial Strategy: Why It’s Your Strongest Competitive Advantage
Most businesses claim to value trust. It usually sits alongside integrity, excellence, and customer focus in the list of things the organisation believes in. But trust as a commercial strategy, in operational specificity, is built into decisions and behaviour rather than listed on a values poster, this is something far fewer businesses actually practise. […]
AI in Operations: What’s Actually Useful Versus What Just Sounds Impressive
The gap between what AI in operation is being sold as and what it is actually doing inside most businesses is significant. The pitch involves transformation at scale, automation of complex decisions, and competitive advantage that compounds over time. The reality, for most operators who are being honest, involves a handful of genuinely useful […]
Startup Leadership Lessons: 5 Things Every Founder Should Learn the Hard Way
Everyone wants to build a successful business, but few of them stop to ask whether they are building one that actually matters or spend years getting adequate startup leadership lessons. Revenue and growth dominate most conversations around entrepreneurship, yet the businesses that endure are rarely built on numbers alone. They are built on conviction, […]
Why Andrew Browning, HotSourced Founder, Turned Down a Safe Career To Build Something Bigger | Unfiltered with Brij Thankey
Leaving university with an engineering degree usually comes with a fairly predictable next step: a graduate role at a respected consultancy, a structured salary, a career path already mapped by the people who came before you. Andrew Browning HotSourced Founder, had all of that in front of him. After submitting 400 job applications, he […]
How to Build a Business That Works Without You: 5 Lessons From a Founder Who Learned the Hard Way
Most times, advice on how to build a business that works without you comes from people with zero experience with what it means to build a TRAP, live through it for a decade, and break from it. This piece is drawn from a founder who has built and exited multiple businesses that grew on […]
From the Founder’s Trap to Freedom with Jason Green, Certified EOS Implementer
By most measures, Jason Green had made it. Multiple businesses built. Multiple exits. His latest company is growing steadily, and turnover is climbing, with a team around him doing the work. From the outside, it looked exactly like the kind of entrepreneurial success people spend years chasing, but inside was a different story entirely. […]