Surprise! This is actually a post about corporate generosity which is not a simple topic. The existential question is whether you can be generous to everyone: suppliers, customers, staff, senior leadership, owners, the planet…the list is a long one and I think it’s impossible to be generous to all of those groups. The tradeoffs are
I wrote and delivered this speech to the students of my critical reasoning class at the Tec de Monterrey in December 2021. “Having lived a decade in Mexico, I have seen many changes. In my experience, when it comes to big, global trends, Mexico lags the rest of North America and Europe by a few
My bakery training did not take place at college. This is a well known fact about me and it is partly what enables me to be a great baker and a great teacher. I have seen a lot and I have been trained by great bakers all over the world. From Cambodia and Canada,
Many people focus on what they don’t have. You may know them: everything about what they say and what they do reinforces how their life is incomplete. In general, they speak one of two languages: the language of longing or the language of lack. The language of longing has about it a kind
Running your own business is never ever easy but it is easier if you love it. I will go one step further: you have to love it or you won’t do it. Running a business is one of the most difficult things you will ever do: 1. The time it takes out of your life
Do you want to set up your own business? Here is the thing: you can. Anyone can. Housewives and stay at home dads, carers, retired people, school children, people looking to change career or start a career or learn a bit extra: men and women of any age can set up a business. You do
Job creation. That’s one of the key things we do at the end of the day. Virtuous Bread makes it fun and easy for people to make and find and learn about bread and forge the link to bread and virtue. We run bread courses to teach people how to bake bread. We teach people
Greenbelt invited me to speak at the festival this year and, if you have never been nor heard about it, you won’t know what an honour that is. Greenbelt is huge – about 20,000 people attend for a four day festival of music, craft, debate and Christian fellowship of all colours. I am not a
A couple of the Bread Angels have tried to get work experience in bakeries which is fantastic. One of them, in South Africa, was turned down because she was a woman. The job was too hard for women. Women did not bake well when they were menstruating (seriously). Women did not bake well at all.
Attention: you may want to consider becoming an entrepreneur I am sure you have noticed that the world has changed. In spite of the fact that London is heaving (restaurants full, shops full, theatres full), travel over the Easter week end was its usual hectic experience, property prices in the south east just keep on