But my taste is not everyone’s.

It’s a milestone I didn’t expect to feel so deeply.

I can water the lettuces every morning, make sure the fig trees have good soil and sun,  and stop the mint from overgrowing the oregano.  

about how p#ssed off people are on seeing a flood of bland and copycat supposedly ai-generated posts, I will go crazy.

When that DM landed, my first reaction was mild embarrassment. A small spelling mistake. Fixed in seconds. No big deal.

That was the opening line from the CMO briefing for one of the biggest public tenders I’d ever attended.

And it’s not what most agencies are doing.

A leader I work with said this last week. And it’s been stuck in my head.

I’ve been putting it off for weeks. Pushing it to the back of my mind.

I was 18. Home for the summer.

Saying goodbye to a name isn’t supposed to feel like grief. But it kind of did.

Each time made me a better leader and person.

It’s been over five years since the world first went remote.
And still, every few months, we see another headline:
“Employees must return to the office to rebuild culture.” 

Absolutely nothing.
Superman may be a great superhero, but he’d make a terrible leader.

I’ve been thinking a lot recently that I’ve been lucky to hire many incredible people over the years.

In July 1985, I was 20 years old and about to board a plane from California to London for my first trip overseas.

And I felt it in my gut from the moment we walked into the pitch.

There’s plenty of writing about how: AI improves employee efficiency: individuals and businesses need to lean in to survive; and a new alphabet soup of hybrid skills (eg: π & M shaped talent) is emerging.

For the first time in 950 years, the 70-metre-long embroidery which tells the story of the Norman conquest of England, will be displayed in the UK.

Or any major leadership transition, for that matter.