Robert Kelsey
What's Stopping You?
Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can.
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Acts of charity – and their motives
Black tie events tend to bring out my insecurities. There’s just something about all those successful-looking people acting like insiders that encourages my chippy-outsider persona – not least because I long ago gave up trying to tie a genuine bow tie (and even struggle with the clip on if... Read more >>
Revisiting Orwell’s road to nowhere
In writing a blog about a recently-published book by Stephen Armstrong called The Road to Wigan Pier Revisited I must immediately declare my interests. First, I know Stephen Armstrong as a friend and as someone I’ve bounced ideas off down the years. Second, I spent my angry youth heavily... Read more >>
Navigating the seven career-cycle moments
The article below recently appeared on The Recruiter website: What’s Stopping You? author Robert Kelsey looks at seven moments careers can take a decisive turning, and how recruiters should help clients make the right decisions Is it worth recruiters understanding career-cycle moments? Surely it... Read more >>
Reopening the case of the pizza chef and the angry boss
Of all the jobs I’ve had (building surveyor, journalist, banker, entrepreneur, PR), only one has caught the imagination of my kids on the retelling: being a pizza chef for Pizza Express as a student holiday job in the 1980s. They love the idea of their dad throwing dough in the air and smearing... Read more >>
 
Robert Kelsey is the author of What's Stopping You: Why Smart People Don't Always Reach Their Potential and How You Can.
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Robert Kelsey is the author of What's Stopping You?, a self-help book that aims at reducing the fear of failure or failing in both life and business and helping people reach their potential. Robert is a financial journalist turned City banker turned entrepreneur, founding and running Moorgate Communications financial PR agency. He is also an author - publishing his first book, The Pursuit of Happiness (a 'lad-lit' comedy on his life as an English banker in New York) in 2000.

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