by johnireland | Articles
The Book in Brief The Hard Thing About Hard Things, published in 2014 by Ben Horowitz, is not a conventional business book. It does not offer a tidy framework, a step-by-step methodology, or a collection of inspiring anecdotes. Instead, it provides an unflinchingly...
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The Conversation That Nobody Wants to Have There is a particular category of conversation that most families avoid. It concerns money, inheritance, care in old age, what happens after death, and who gets what. These conversations are emotionally loaded, potentially...
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What Changed in November 2025 Employee Ownership Trusts (EOTs) have been one of the fastest-growing exit routes for UK business owners since their introduction in 2014. Inspired by the John Lewis Partnership model, EOTs allow owners to sell their company to a trust...
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The Question Most Homeowners Never Ask If you own a property with someone else — a spouse, partner, family member, or business associate — there is a legal question sitting underneath your ownership that most people never think about. It is not whether you own the...
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The Plan You Wrote Then May Not Protect Them Now When most parents write their first will, their children are young. The provisions are straightforward: everything goes to the surviving spouse, and if both parents die, the children inherit equally. Guardians are...
