by johnireland | Articles
Every few months on The Bookshelf, we pick up a book that has nothing to do with Wills, trusts or probate on the surface, and everything to do with them underneath. This month it is Shoe Dog, Phil Knight’s 2016 memoir of building Nike from a car boot importing...
by johnireland | The Book Shelf
Shoe Dog is Phil Knight’s candid memoir of building Nike, and it is more useful to business owners than most business books because it does not flatter the process. Knight shows a company that looked successful for years while being genuinely close to collapse,...
by johnireland | Articles
Ask ten business owners what their company is worth, and you’ll get ten confident answers – most of them wrong. It’s one of the strangest blind spots in business ownership. You can probably tell me your turnover to the pound, your best client’s...