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Coffee is life
Coffee and spreadsheets, in that order. I’m that simple. Coffee is my one true love and how I survived not only corporate but life in my 20’s and 30s. But now I have to be careful about stacking stimulants, Something I initially rejected as impossible…because give up coffee? No thank you. But where coffee once…
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We’re going for all humanity, for our families and for our teammates….
We need to talk about Artemis II — and not in the “What Artemis II taught me about <insert your corporate niche>here</insert>” way. I mean it in the elder‑millennial middle‑manager sense of: can we please all pause and appreciate that we collectively witnessed a genuinely historic event… that, for once, was neither horrific nor embarrassing?…
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The Dilbert Principle:
It took me until this week to learn that Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, died of prostate cancer at the start of January at 68. The news has given me real pause. It’s no exaggeration to say I grew up with Dilbert. The Dilbert Principle was the first book on leadership and management I…
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Wind Down 25th Sept 2023
Interest rates, 15th times the charm Flick your cigarette butts into the “economic bin-fire” The Murdoch Empire: The one where Kendal Roy gets the company Airlines are just banks now FTX was keeping it in the family Interest rates, 15th times the charmOn Thursday the Bank of England finally decided to stick rather than twist…
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Wind Down 4th Sept 2023
CITV switches off for the last time How the economy suddenly did better than expected Who was on PR for beer this week? M&S rejoins FTSE 100 Tesco joins others in introducing body cams for staff CITV switches off for the last timeCITV said goodbye for the final time this week after 17.5 years on…
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Wind Down 13th Feb 2023
My 2022 finance wrapped Being out of routine What’s in a digital pound anyway? Where next for the weekly food shop? Have podcasts had their day? My 2022 finance wrappedThis was a January job I just kept moving on each week, but this week I finalised my January accounts so why not have a look…