Prioritisation means stopping doing things that you previously did. It is very hard to do. No one ever pitches a great idea of what they are going to stop doing. It’s always new projects. The proposed action is always pressing and it always costs money, at least in the short term. This is the case
Ask anyone what they want in life and many will say ‘I want to be happy’. It would certainly be odd if they wanted to be unhappy but I’ve always felt I must be odd because I frequently find that I am unhappy and dissatisfied. It’s nice to be happy. Chatting to my wife on
The corporate lifestyle sometimes gives a glimpse into the world of the rich and famous. Because it frequently involves travelling to meetings in far flung places, the people living it develop a vocabulary that fixates on descriptions of restaurants, hotels, business class flights, airports, airport lounges, limos, visas, expenses, time zones and exotic animals you’ve
I used to find the term culture difficult to grasp, at least as it is applied to organisations, until I read the story about the five monkeys and a banana: Five monkeys are in a cage with a banana suspended from a rope. The banana is out of reach unless the monkeys climb a set
You have to pity analysts and financial journalists having to publish their market forecasts. It’s like being professionally obliged to make a fool of yourself. My prediction for the 2018 year-end position of the FTSE is 7,636 (it is 7,017 at the time of writing, as the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement is published). The truth