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Academy Member sails over 9,000miles in the Clipper 09/10 Round the World Race

As ten Clipper Ventures race yachts sailed back into Hull on Saturday 17th July, marking the end of a 10month race around the world, Academy member (ACE 42) Peter Guttridge was on Clipper Qingdao, the 68ft Chinese sponsored yacht, with 16 crew mates and skipper. For Peter, Managing Director of a £10m T/O family engineering […]

Better Approach and Attitude lead to Better Decisions by Brian Chernett

Do you need to be lucky to survive and to thrive? I’m sure there are elements of luck involved, however, I believe in making your own luck and that starts with optimism. Remember the objective is always to come out of difficult times stronger and leaner and to be ready for the opportunities that will […]

Make Better Decisions by Ditching your “Default Alternative” – by Ian Moore

Our brains have developed over hundreds of thousands of years and our evolution has allowed it to make some decisions very rapidly. This development has a Catch 22 when it comes to making decisions. For survival purposes our brains have developed very useful mechanisms however these very mechanisms can cause real issues when making business […]

How to improve the decision-making process by Peter Sutcliffe

The North East Academy for Chief Executives, Directors Forum speaker in July was Ian Moore who facilitated a fascinating and thought provoking experiential learning session on “Decisions Decisions“. We examined how we make decisions, how well we make decisions, how much bad decisions can cost us! and how we can improve the decision making process. […]