This picture cropped up on my Facebook feed the other day, a speaking event from 2016 in Bucharest, Romania. And ‘feed’ is perhaps the key word - because the one thing I saw when I looked at it [...]

Do schools kill creativity? Confessions of a recovering micromanager This is what happens when you reply to spam email Here’s an idea: let’s invite a bunch of people to sit in a theatre for a few hours and [...]

"We’ve been working with a marketing consultancy and they’ve come up with some values and a mission statement for the company. Here’s what they are [points to the screen] – we’ve spent a lot of  money on this [...]

There’s a fascinating passage in The Fifth Risk, a new book by best-selling author Michael Lewis which explores one of the less publicised aspects of American politics – the transition from one executive to another. In this case [...]

One of the joys of having a child studying film and Spanish at university is the degree to which he teaches me things about my work! His passion is more towards movies than language (as is mine) so we [...]

Some people just have funny bones; Ronnie was one of them I love this quote from scriptwriter Barry Cryer, referring to Ronnie Corbett – a diminutive figure but a comedy giant. Corbett passed away in 2016, so his death [...]

A few years ago I was seriously in the doldrums and was introduced to the work of Seth Godin (pictured above left). A New York-based marketing guru, Godin writes one of the most read business blogs in the [...]

There are no principles operating here, just gusts of wind. Printed in a recent USA Today, this description of a famous figure comes from Robert Epstein, an American research psychologist and a former Editor-in-Chief of Psychology Today. Can [...]

Driving home recently I was listening to Jonathan Ross on BBC Radio 2 talking about space exploration. Someone happened to mention Neil Armstrong and Ross recalled a time when the famous astronaut came into the studio to [...]