AI
Anthropic has its VHS moment
Joint Venture Kitty raised to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner of Big 7 consultancies
Articles
AI
cinema
Go and see Project Hail Mary
Spoilers....A film about collaboration, hope and finding a way
Government
Whodunnit?
A masterclass in English language and defensive communication
amazon
Amazon and Anthropic's accounting bromance
Amazon just wrote Anthropic a $25 billion cheque. Anthropic promptly wrote one back for $100 billion. Here is what the deal means for you...
Downtime
The Third Half...
A substack you can lose yourself in...
AI
The cost of a mile
Hedging your overhead certainty according to oil price
Wellbeing
The long weekend you need
Well hello there. I'm just back from Newquay having shown the world that even fat labradors like me can mount a surfboard - in the water too. I love Easter weekend at home. I try to do as little as possible as London is always quiet and I can potter away - if my family lets me... (Storm
AI
Quantum for CEOs
Just as you have your head around AI, quantum computing wants to have a pop at you as well. Our resident expert in quantum computing, Jonathan Loretto, schools us in what we need to know as CEOs… You know that feeling when someone explains something so genuinely world-altering that you
Wellbeing
The longest minute of my life
Ten years ago today, I had just returned from China on an assignment for the UK government, attracting investors to British technology companies. It was an intense, sprawling job and I arrived home on Saturday afternoon exhausted only to start a new job on Monday at Virgin Money. I knew if
AI
How Many People Can I Fire?
I gave a talk last week to a City CIO Club gathering on the next generation of skills leadership teams need to develop around AI. Afterwards, one of the CIOs in the room stood up: "We are on this right now, but only in the tech department. And actually mostly me. I am axing tens of
Leadership
Bring Out Your Jobs
The Executive Summary is building a jobs section into the newsletter. Board roles, C-suite appointments, senior leadership positions, NEDs and fractionals appointments. If you're trying to find the best of UK talent and LinkedIn is bringing you some very random and poor results, why not
AI
How are you using AI?
Where is AI already making you money and where is it just making you feel modern? I gave a talk on this in Edinburgh the other day to a brilliant group of people at SMT Network. Fast forward to the end to find out which types of AI your organisation uses today and where you might be