It is always a touch embarrassing to read or, even worse, have to actually listen to a so called businessman sing his own praises. Telling us how clever he or she was, to be in the right place, asset class, property or just job, at any particular time.

After all who really wants to know? They mostly want you to know, as it strokes their ego and many will go to great lengths, even paying for advertorial articles on themselves that blow their own trumpet or tells us of their aspirations, goals and potential. What a waste of stale hot air!

There is great confusion in the minds of these often career corporate men, bean counters or more suitably back room boys and it all revolves around what entrepreneurship actually is. From the great Jack Walsh (what an ego!) to over promoted third world accountants, I, like you, have probably had to listen to their descriptions of how they took,