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I'm going for an interview, I'm being interviewed for… 

We treat interviews as a one-way process: a panel asking the questions, and you trying to giv...

Just sometimes the world shifts in a heartbeat and you realise you were right all along. I remember it clearly. In the late 90s I was running an Inter...

Boards were designed for a world that moved slowly. You set a strategy, reviewed it once a year, and relied on management to execute while you oversaw...

For the first time in decades, technology has placed businesses in genuine high-risk, high-reward territory. Large Language Models aren't another clou...

If there is one management style that gets consistently criticised, it's micro-management.  It’s said to be the hallmark of a bad boss, a lack of trus...

If you’ve ever ignored the bank balance, postponed the awkward conversation or convinced yourself that your team is “fine really”, then you are in ...

 Everyone is blaming something, ageism, AI, the economy. Pick your villain. But moaning about villains does not get you a job.

Yes, the economy is a me...

 What is truth in business? It is not the slogans printed in the annual report, nor the polished story told to investors. Truth is what people actuall...

I hear this a lot at the moment. “It’s the economy.” “It’s AI.” “We can’t get the right people.” And so it goes on.

Stop doing that. Face reality ...

Elon Musk's xAI has announced a new feature for its AI chatbot Grok that will allow users to create video clips turning selfies into highly sexuali...

AI has beaten us on two fronts that once defined competitive advantage. It is faster, and it is cheaper. That should stop every leader in their tra...

We thought we knew where the internet would take us

In the late 90’s I spoke at conferences across the world about the Internet and how it would chan...