Dad, you've really got to watch this. So said my daughter last week, and she was right - I really DID have to watch this, and so do we all. She was referring to the new Netflix film [...]

In the opening chapter of his book Blink, Malcolm Gladwell introduces the concept of ‘thin-slicing’ with the strapline “How a little bit of knowledge goes a long way”. It’s about the way we draw big conclusions from very [...]

Top row: Andrew Vincent, Ali Foxon, Andy Hall, Andrew Greenwood Bottom row: Ellie Pool, Linton Foat, Paul Lewis, Charlotte Simpson It was twelve months ago this week that a group of 8 individuals stepped onto the stage [...]

Interview for Twelve Scholars I will always seize the opportunity to promote the value of storytelling in business, so when my good friend Bob Buckley invited me to be interviewed for his Twelve Scholars podcast, I was delighted [...]

Then my whole world went zoom. Fat Larry’s Band might have reached No.2 in the 1982 UK singles chart with “Zoom” but I don’t think that word was on our lips quite as much as it is now. [...]

Huge thank you to Kirsty James for her amazing insights on networking skills at the recent JOT event at the Wilmslow Conference Centre (Total Fitness, Handforth). I consider myself a networking veteran but I learned so much from [...]

The shortest distance between two people is a story (Terrence Gargiulo)If the above quote has any validity (and I sincerely believe it does), then the ‘7 Stories’ event last Thursday evening in Leaf, Manchester created many new bonds between the [...]

I never thought of myself as a disruptor. But a former boss of mine said I was the most disruptive person he’d ever worked with. He meant it as a compliment! These were the words of Michelle Richardson, Operations Director for MC [...]

I was having a bit of a clear out at home the other day and came across an oil painting I’d done as a teenager (the bird of prey shown above). At the time I was considering an art-related degree [...]

I wish I could say I’d met Professor Stephen Hawking, a man of colossal intellect and great courage (apparently he was given just 2-3 years to live after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease, whilst at university). Right up to [...]