A lot of the big issues that affect our lives are way beyond our control. Attempts to forecast the outcome of global events is futile. Rather than worry about them, you need to get on with your job in front of you.

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Rapid change is now a constant in the business environment and you need to be highly flexible to cope. What can you do to stay agile?

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Do all entrepreneurs have psychological disorders. One common view of startup entrepreneurs is that they are somehow weird. Why is that? We need to look beyond the negative view of the word 'disorder'.

Rapid growth is a great goal but overreaching can be counter productive. If you want to grow a sound, sustainable business, set goals that are a stretch but not impossible.

Business success often seems random. How can you increase your exposure to lucky breaks?

There are several common element to the worst decisions I've made. A central one is not asking for help when I don't really know what I'm doing. You can avoid a lot of disasters just by accepting that some people do some things better than you. The art of management and the art of delegation are closely related.

Just how bankable is intuition? Often it's the way to go, often it's not. Alan looks at ways to assess whether or not you should back your hunches.

Too much information can take our eye off the main game. Whether it's investing in stocks, managing a business or running your life, stepping back and looking at the big picture can be more rewarding than diving too deeply into the detail.

Negotiations never go exactly to plan. Often they are scary and confronting. But just as often their outcomes are pleasantly surprising.

There is nothing new about the term "disruption". Business have been coming and going for hundreds of years. What is it that makes some new startups so disruptive that even major corporations are destabilised by them.