Image from Robert Bye on Unsplash If only there were more hours in the day! It’s a familiar lament, but has the shift to remote (home) working actually made that wish come true? Speaking for myself, I’ve certainly [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]