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The chairman of professional services firm KMPG in Bermuda is to retire at year-end after 31 years with the organisation. Neil Patterson joined the audit practice of the firm in 1989 with a focus in banking and reinsurance. He became a partner in 199...

Ironically, one of the biggest challenges of being a successful leader is that you actually do make progress personally and professionally and reach a point where you have accomplished some of your major goals. When you are younger this is often not ...

In October, having spent 18 years here, Mark and Tricia Walters packed up their belongings and moved to the Azores with their two cats, Cocoa Bean and Freya. Although they loved Bermuda it was “getting ridiculously expensive” and so while on holiday ...

Yesterday’s the past, tomorrow’s the future, but today is a gift. That’s why it’s called the present— The Family Circus, Bil Keane Bil was correct. We have all heard the expression “Don’t judge a book by its cover” and, ironically enough, we all assu...

In my new reality where I work with anyone from anywhere, I recently participated in a discussion regarding the difference between change and evolution. If you are a regular reader of this column, you may have already gathered that for me, leadership...

My dear readers, do you really love the mighty ocean that surrounds us on every side? Do you take time and allow yourself to appreciate the moment the sun blazes forth from the shining sea? No power on earth can reverse that passage to the far side ...

“This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — Winston Churchill Sometimes the hardest part about a journey is realising that you are making one. Let’s think about this for a moment. ...

It used to be the saying that when it came to effective business development you needed to think globally and act locally. However, if the events of this year have taught me anything, the key to business growth now is to think locally but work globa...

As you might imagine, the ongoing global health crisis has provided me with just about all the “me time” I can handle. Don’t get me wrong, I have been pretty upbeat about the situation for the most part and come up with all sorts of novel ways to am...

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life” — Unknown If there is one thing that my journey has shown me time and again, it’s that if you are not advancing, you are receding because nothing in life is static. As some...

This week as I pivot between online development meetings with new business partners in the United States, Britain, Canada and Singapore, I am excited to give you a glimpse into some of the ways that my colleagues and I are expanding a number of our p...

“When you set out in the world to help yourself you inevitably end up helping … Tutti.” Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love) Today’s quote is borrowed from one of my favourite books. I won’t pretend that it is the greatest literary masterpiece ever writ...