The Nature of Your Jobs

For long time readers (that's both of you) my aversion to Apple as an organisation and the near cult of Steve Jobs is well documented. However, I'm also pretty 'whole of market' about where I get my wisdom - because I think learning is so precious that you should try and grab it wherever you …

Discomfort vs Fear

I've just hopped off a stage where I was talking about the future of work. The people who had been on before me had talked about being positive about it so I went for a more dystopian view (for a sense of balance and because I'd had a bad commute). The people before had said …

Hope vs faith

Every year my family meets up in Regents Park at the same time, same place. There are a lot of us (my grandparents had 15 children which makes for a lot of cousins...) and so the outside space works for us. This year it was against the backdrop of Cabinet resignations, Trump protests and a …

Why I strongly dislike PowerPoint.

(I hate it, but if I wrote hate in the title someone would contact me and say 'hate is such a strong word, do you really hate it? In these days of conflict isn't there enough hate in the world?' - and I'd hate having to type a polite response to that) Anyway Great PowerPoint …

First 100 days

Someone pointed out to me that I've had my first 100 days in my new role. Since that number is a purely arbitrary number I thought I'd jot down some working out loud style piffle about stuff I've done or should be learning from. I was slightly taken aback to read what I had planned …