by johnireland | Articles
Most of the business owners I sit down with aren’t unfit. They walk the dog, they might even get to the gym twice a week. What catches up with them is the bit in between — the six or seven hours of back-to-back calls, spreadsheets and emails where nobody moves...
by johnireland | Articles
I don’t read many business books cover to cover, but this one stuck with me. How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen, with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, takes theories built to explain why companies succeed or fail and turns them on the...
by johnireland | Articles
Most families dealing with a death assume that if there’s no Inheritance Tax to pay, there’s nothing much to file. For estates worth roughly £325,000 to £1 million, that assumption has been broadly true since the excepted estate rules changed in January...
by johnireland | Articles
Most people assume their Will covers everything they own. It doesn’t. There’s one page, tucked away in a pension file somewhere, that decides who gets one of the biggest assets many of us will ever hold — and it sits completely outside your Will....