


How to make writing a business book a whole lot easier.
I’ve just written a business book. I can’t tell you how good it feels to type those words. It’s called “My Job Isn’t Working!”, and is essentially the top 10 tools I know people find helpful in dealing with the ever-increasing...
Why should anyone be managed by YOU?
There are plenty of highly competent managers on the planet, and you are no doubt one of them. You manage people because you’re good at it, and you got to where you are by showing the appropriate level of competence in the various disciplines of achieving results...
How not to build a dream team
Google knows quite a bit about us. It probably has as much data on our individual preferences and online behaviours as any other organisation on the planet. It also spends much of its time and energy trying to understand itself. One of its more interesting recent...
"Keep buggering on!" (Churchill): bad idea.
One of Churchill’s most famous maxims was a phrase he allegedly used at the start of each day, and at the end of phone conversations: “Keep buggering on!” – KBO. (His pool of female typists used to hear a politer version – KPO –...