Adversity as Constructive Force
As mostly all of us do, I invested my time in a lot of things, possibilities, opportunities, options of deals with great outcome, companies, projects reviews, technicalities and so on. It all seemed a winning horse at the time and off course worth my time. A lot of the time invested did not turn into […]
The Real Impact of Technologies: A Television Interview with Simon Vumbaca, The Contemplationist.
Renowned Contemplationist and technology ethics expert Simon Vumbaca was recently interviewed on the Italian television program FvgTech, hosted by Gabriele Gobbo. The interview focused on Simon Vumbaca’s unique perspective on emerging technologies and their cultural and sociological impact on personal development, businesses, life and they overall come to shape the future of our interactions. Simon […]
Money Is Not an Object… Anymore
In business and in life, we like to feel informed. I must confess that since 2008 the degree of business and financial information available and gathered has been growing exponentially. We now have on-the-spot updates and financial predictions that are delivered with such convincing aplomb that we believe they must be accurate and based on […]
Return on Time Invested
According to western traditions, we are at the start of a new year. This is a time when all resolutions are forged in purposes and actions. Most for a short while. We focus on what is ahead. Have we learned from the recent past though? For me 2023 has been a fantastic year by many […]
The importance of accurate designation: Process vs Purpose
Recently I have been blessed by the opportunity to be a speaker at several tech conferences and even to be interviewed by tech futurist experts. They all had incredibly solid vision, almost to a certainty rarely seen before, of the evolution of technologies and how, with the push of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) all has become […]
It Is Better To Ask For Forgiveness Than Permission – why the thirsty should let the mudded water settle before drinking it.
There was a not-so-distant time where information was the difference between success and mega success.
When Self Doubt Knock – Don’t Open the Door”
Today I was in Town and managed to catch up with a friend. This was an impromptu meeting. By many accounts my friend is a very successful businessman in his own right with a massive set of skills and an even longer list of achievements. He brilliantly sold his business not long ago and after […]
If you stay the same, how can you expect things to change?
One of the beauties of growing old is that things are put into perspective. There is a tendency to look back at what was done, particularly when selective memory is applied and we tend to remember the good stuff and forget the bad, unless it was really painful. Talking to my friend of many years, […]
Shall we burry our head in the Sand and pretend all is well
Waking up every morning to news readers telling us how the basic services the state is supposed to deliver are not working and are losing money. Then you hear about how corporations are driving production prices down via their competitive processes, leaving the producers exposes and with losses, particularly if anything is amended in the […]
Demystifying Value Creation by Simon Vumbaca, Principal and Founder ASV Private Office
As part of the daily work in a private office, we receive pitch decks. Plenty of them. Inevitably, in every investor’s pitch deck there is always a value creation slide. It’s usually a reference to a proprietary secret sauce and some assumptions, all coloured with incredibly optimistic numbers. But what does value creation actually mean? Investors and management teams have to define and deliver ways […]
