Crisis?
Which Crisis?

Having anticipated the dot-com bust I went into semi-retirement in 2000, spent four years getting 3 novels written and published, only to find myself rescuing a small business involved in… yes, the housing boom. Assisted by favourable market conditions, applying my systems and processes helped that company increase gross earnings 500% in 2 years. But yet again I saw the impending fall and extricated myself. I continue to take work using my experience to turn around issues in small business or large projects, but have also invested in a new future.

I did not fully anticipate the 2008 financial collapse, rather I saw the next BIG Issue to be Energy: The whole subject. All the existing and alternative options, from all the myriad perspectives... To make sense of it all is the challenge I've taken on, because it's worthwhile and because I think it can be done.

Energy - because for every item of news there is contrary news; for each reasoned argument there is a seemingly reasonable counter-argument; because understanding of energy is so thin and discussion is so fragmented; and because policies do not seem to follow a rational course.

and now that the first full release of The Energy Framework is ready. From here I intend to partner with organisations trying to solve Energy issues, using the Energy Framework to bring clarity to the decision making around policy, investment and infrastucture.

Want to be involved in this effort? Contact me personally here.

Business Books?

In the mid nineties I attempted a unified theory of business and project recovery based on what I'd done for a couple of decades. It wasn't too big an idea, but the writing was tough (one powerpoint slide = 1000 words?). Thanks to my experience with writing involving editorial edge, I hope to revisit this task soon via compact books, like short stories.

We'll see what happens: Even in this economic crisis, the sun shines on the new solar project... and there remains so much to do in life!