By Brian Buck | 01/15/2015
Pour oil on it
There is one group for whom cheaper oil is bad news — oil producers, who’ve been having an amazing run between…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 01/08/2015
Over, under…and done!
One of our clients was close to an agreement with a bank to offer a few preliminary services, which could…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/18/2014
Pipes of Peace
On Christmas Day 1914 the guns fell silent on no mans land. English, Irish, Welsh and Scottish Soldiers emerged from their…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/11/2014
Chore wars
Who does thehousework in your house? Seems this is a much bigger issue than you might think. Or maybe it…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/04/2014
Bhopal
An American President(depending on your politics it could be any American President since Eisenhower) visits a class of 9 year-olds.…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 12/01/2014
The sin of greed
It is a very simple equation to look at how margin is impacted by the price a company charges for…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/20/2014
Accountants are all torque
At first glance there may not seem much in common between Formula One racing and chartered accountancy. So the news…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/13/2014
A winning package
There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth lately amongst the chattering classes and politicians in the UK and,…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 11/06/2014
Yes but…I have a strategy
Frequently people want to talk about their negotiating strategy. My immediate (if private) reaction to this is “oh dear!!” Negotiation…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 10/30/2014
Infallibility
There is a sweet story about a car mechanic who is fixing the engine of the car belonging to an…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 10/24/2014
Business. Survival of the nastiest
There are three things that stick out for me from the new series of The Apprentice. The first is that at…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 10/20/2014
Complicated Games
This week the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics was awarded to Professor Jean Tirole for his writings on the regulation…
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