Thanks once again for your marvellous support for my work. The open rates are sitting above 75%, and I can see people exploring the site, reading different posts, and following the threads of the work. I am genuinely grateful for that. I suspect quite a few of you are reading quietly in the background. I…
Back in the groove, building towards 1,000 subscribers, with Phil Parkinson and Jensen Huang on the way I’m genuinely delighted with my small and growing subscriber list, and even more delighted by the way people are engaging with it. The open rates are high, and the readership is already reaching well beyond the number of…
A regular note on confidence, composure and charisma under pressure, from 7 Skills to impress™ From the Doldrums to On Top of the World A week in the doldrums. My girlfriend was away, there was a neighbour’s garden party on Saturday that I absolutely did not feel like going to, and I could sense myself beginning…
What Peter Kaufman taught me about trust, leadership and being the one who reaches out first Go Positive and Go First I’m writing this from the Malvern Bakehouse, on a morning that has the good sense to be sunny, and things feel, genuinely, fine. Given what the last few weeks have looked like, fine is…
A regular note on confidence, composure and charisma under pressure, from 7 Skills to impress™ Friday Morning I talked to my girlfriend’s foster son. He’s 12, and he’s just been moved out of a school that was supposed to be supporting him, yet had placed a ceiling on what anyone expected of him. My girlfriend…
A regular note on confidence, composure and charisma under pressure, from 7 Skills to impress™ This week My dog, Molly, died in my arms. She was 16. Six days later, my mother died from leukaemia. They were both loved right to the end, and lived long fulfilled lives, so while there is sadness, it doesn’t…
