by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Simon Sinek’s The Infinite Game (2019) borrows James Carse’s idea that some games are played to win and others to keep playing — and argues business is the second kind.A finite game is played to win; an infinite game is played to keep playing. Business has...
by johnireland | Legal Spotlight
McDaniel v Talbot & Anor [2026] EWHC 928 (Ch) shows what can happen when a Will is not updated after family life changes. Mark Talbot’s 2014 Will left everything to his wife and expressly excluded his daughter, Emma, citing twenty years without contact. From...
by johnireland | Tax Talk
Probate value is not the final word. What executors actually sell for can change the tax bill in either direction.If executors sell land or buildings within four years of death for less than probate value, they can claim inheritance tax back on form IHT38.All land...
by johnireland | Articles
For more than a decade, owners of small firms have had a quiet safety net. If a new recruit was not working out, there was a two-year window in which, for most ordinary dismissals, the employee could not bring an unfair dismissal claim. Plenty of businesses have leant...
by johnireland | Articles
Somewhere over America, late at night, a social scientist working on his laptop overheard an elderly man telling his wife that he might as well be dead. When the lights came up on landing, he recognised the man — a national hero, admired for decades. The pilot shook...
