As soon as I opened my laptop at 5am that morning, the mountain of emails received overnight shook my resolution to take some time away from work and climb the Great Wall of China. On a business trip to Beijing, I had been working “double shifts”, holding extended business hours in Beijing before shifting to GMT… Read more
I take a “coaching break” every 3 months. The no-coaching time zone allows me to focus on other areas of my work. It also gives me a chance to look at the ventures with fresh eyes and suggest new approaches to the challenges they face. My last “coaching break” happened to coincide with the summer… Read more
Some do death by PowerPoint, I do death by coaching. The startups we work with at Accelerate Cambridge get a minimum of one hour a week of individual intensive coaching sessions as well as mentoring sessions. As a result, with 30 startups under management I get to spend on average 15 hours a week coaching… Read more