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12 Jun 2026
Token turns: a one-armed bandit outcome punt
tokens
12 Jun 2026
Botsitting: the hidden cost of AI fumbling
AI
10 Jun 2026
Six AI sales challenges you should be aware of
agentic ai
04 Jun 2026
AI, data sovereignty and the talent reset
03 Jun 2026
Ramses II: Master of the personal brand
pr
02 Jun 2026
How do you stay relevant today?
AI
26 May 2026
Outcome economics: the future of consulting
AI
22 May 2026
Why China leads the startup ecosystem
china
20 May 2026
Google changes front door of the interweb
AI
13 May 2026
The CEO's AI toolkit: The essential guide to Claude.
AI
11 May 2026
You do you
keir starmer
08 May 2026
Peak swearing mode enabled
claude
06 May 2026
Anthropic has its VHS moment
AI
30 Apr 2026
Go and see Project Hail Mary
cinema
24 Apr 2026
Whodunnit?
Government
22 Apr 2026
Amazon and Anthropic's accounting bromance
amazon
14 Apr 2026
The Third Half...
Downtime
13 Apr 2026
The cost of a mile
AI
02 Apr 2026
The long weekend you need
Wellbeing
26 Mar 2026
How to Write an Executive Summary for a Business Plan (With Examples)
25 Mar 2026
Quantum for CEOs
AI
24 Mar 2026
The 8 skills to nuke your competitors
Growth
19 Mar 2026
The longest minute of my life
Wellbeing
03 Mar 2026
The 4 Things You Need to Get Right When Selling to the C-Suite
Growth
02 Mar 2026
Bring Out Your Jobs
Leadership
28 Feb 2026
How are you using AI?
AI
27 Feb 2026
The Software Tax
AI
25 Feb 2026
Apocalypse Selling: Is it Irresponsible to Fearmonger?
AI
20 Feb 2026
How Long Should an Executive Summary Be? (250 to 500 Words, and Why)
17 Feb 2026
Unmeasured Productivity: AI Investments are Flying Blind
AI
08 Feb 2026
Carry on Governing
Geopolitics
05 Feb 2026
Selling to the C-Suite: Listen. Create. Engage.
Growth
04 Feb 2026
Update: Bust IT
Leadership
30 Jan 2026
SPADness: Are Advisors to Blame for Government Cockups?
Geopolitics
26 Jan 2026
How to Fire Someone
Leadership
23 Jan 2026
Greenland, Jobs and Labour Chaos
Geopolitics
21 Jan 2026
The Agents Working Against You
AI
16 Jan 2026
The Quality of Your Thoughts
Wellbeing
19 Dec 2025
That's a Wrap for '25
AI
19 Dec 2025
Winter Mindset: Why The Season Tests Us
Wellbeing
10 Dec 2025
The Work Myth: The 127 Days to Make Sales Happen
Growth
05 Dec 2025
The Safety Advantage: How to Reduce Decision Risk and Accelerate Sales
Growth
30 Nov 2025
Moses Itauma: The Heavyweight's Executive Summary on Life
Downtime
27 Nov 2025
Can Business Grow in a Budget That Doesn’t Like Business?
Geopolitics
25 Nov 2025
I Am Scared of This And Need Your Help
AI
20 Nov 2025
Is this Britain's Most Famous Cat?
Downtime
14 Nov 2025
Christmas Drinks: You're Invited
Growth
12 Nov 2025
Executive Summary: The Ultimate Guide (Examples + Template)
AI
11 Nov 2025
Overwoke and Underpaid: Can the BBC Recover (Again)?
Leadership
07 Nov 2025
School Fees, Flatlining and Farcical PR Events
AI
04 Nov 2025
What You're Missing: Attention Flywheels & Trust Engines
Leadership
30 Oct 2025
Change Bullies: Using AI to Extract Gatekeepers to Progress
Leadership
28 Oct 2025
The Prophet of the Stateless Age: What Ian Angell Saw Coming
Geopolitics
26 Oct 2025
When Life Gives You Tangles, Play Them
Growth
23 Oct 2025
Confidence: What's Killing the Economy
Growth
22 Oct 2025
Can You Just Ask AI to Do It?
AI
17 Oct 2025
Bubbles, Kitkats and Broadcom
AI
16 Oct 2025
A Quick Check-In
Leadership
14 Oct 2025
From the Great Moderation to the Great Fragmentation
Geopolitics
09 Oct 2025
Mindset Audits and Geopolitics
Geopolitics
07 Oct 2025
The Dog Update
Growth
03 Oct 2025
$120k Bitcoin and Crypto Rally as US Regulators Shut
Geopolitics
02 Oct 2025
The Moses Itauma Interview
Downtime
30 Sep 2025
Cheating, Doorbells and AI-Made Bio Viruses
AI
26 Sep 2025
Crypto millionaires, Eurocoins and Tether’s Punchy Landgrab
Geopolitics
25 Sep 2025
Obama: Still Hopeful. More Careful
Leadership
24 Sep 2025
Has your leadership team checked out?
Leadership
23 Sep 2025
Futile Resistance, Shutdown Gobsmack and Bumbled Guardrails
AI
18 Sep 2025
Crypto’s Regulatory Turn: London Makes its Move
Geopolitics
17 Sep 2025
Labour: Where's the Growth?
Geopolitics
16 Sep 2025
Copilot Failure, $35m and Zero-Day AI Attacks
AI
10 Sep 2025
Are you a Geek?
Leadership
03 Sep 2025
Europe Lacks a Growth Mindset
Growth
23 Jul 2025
The AI Roundup
AI
18 Jul 2025
Is 16 Too Young to Vote?
Geopolitics
16 Jul 2025
Sustainability's Fickle Switch
Geopolitics
15 Jul 2025
Lloyds Offers Cautious Optimism for UK
Growth
15 Jul 2025
Speed must not damage quality
AI
11 Jul 2025
Whatsapp Groups: Pub Chat Lives On
Downtime
09 Jul 2025
Integrated Defence: A Lesson for CEOs
Leadership
08 Jul 2025
Recommend a Friend
Leadership
02 Jul 2025
Tech Debt to Tsunami from AI Fallout
AI
25 Jun 2025
Not Love Island. Not Fintech. Just £650 Billion of GDP
Growth
18 Jun 2025
Supply Chains Are Breaking. Just-In-Time is Paused.
Geopolitics
13 May 2025
From Pilot to Pause: Why GenAI is Stalling
AI
06 May 2025
What CEOs Want: The 2025 Guide to the Great Unknown
Leadership
30 Apr 2025
The Carbon Sink Industry
Geopolitics
28 Apr 2025
Your biggest writing challenge?
Downtime
03 Apr 2025
The Squid Games of Global Trade
Geopolitics
02 Apr 2025
The Gen X Question for Gen Z
Leadership
01 Apr 2025
India's genius narrative flip
Geopolitics
27 Mar 2025
The No-Grow-Zone Budget
Geopolitics
26 Mar 2025
Did Asset Management Die? Why Gen Z Has Disconnected
Growth
25 Mar 2025
GPT Relationships - It’s Complicated
AI
24 Mar 2025
The UK Growth Crisis: When Builders Leave and the Middle Breaks
Growth
20 Mar 2025
The Diversity Shift: Where do CEOs Stand?
Leadership
19 Mar 2025
The Aid Cuts Shockwave: What it Means for Business
Geopolitics
14 Mar 2025
The Rise of the Superfan
Growth
07 Mar 2025
Fusion Guns, French Nerds & Next-Frontier Space Rockets
AI
27 Feb 2025
The AI Boom: Innovation or Instability?
AI
18 Dec 2024
Thank you.
Growth
06 Dec 2024
8 Marketing Changes You Need to Master
Growth
03 Dec 2024
Scary: If you read one thing today, make it this...
AI
03 Dec 2024
If you need introductions, just ask...
Leadership
26 Nov 2024
Crypto's marketing sucks...
Growth
08 Nov 2024
Fortune favours the bold
Growth
01 Nov 2024
Hospitals 1: Entrepreneurs 0
Leadership
28 Oct 2024
The $125Bn Company You've Never Heard Of
Growth
16 Oct 2024
3 events for your diary...
Growth
14 Oct 2024
Is anyone looking out for entrepreneurs?
Leadership
11 Oct 2024
Has talent moved to TikTok?
Leadership
04 Oct 2024
AI failure, cabaret and my back passage
AI
03 Oct 2024
Unlocking DeFi: Opportunities for the Buy-Side in modern finance
AI
03 Oct 2024
AI Frontiers: Transforming Media & Entertainment
AI
29 Sep 2024
Death of a friend
Wellbeing
24 Sep 2024
Growth Blockers H1 24
Growth
20 Sep 2024
73% of CXOs would vote remain
Geopolitics
13 Sep 2024
SaaS slashers, AI art tiles and gilet male fails...
AI
06 Sep 2024
The adventures of Keir Poppins
Geopolitics
30 Aug 2024
About that AI you just bought...
AI
29 Aug 2024
Coming to London as a graduate
Downtime
23 Jul 2024
The Microsoft Outage - A Lesson For The City in Concentration Risk
AI
07 Jul 2024
There’s no time to waste
Growth
02 Jul 2024
Downturn in VCs, Upturn in M&A
Growth
02 Jul 2024
A few updates for you
Geopolitics
02 Jul 2024
Growth Blockers Q2
Growth
02 Jul 2024
Update on The Executive Summary
Leadership
30 Jun 2024
July in the City: Top 20 Events for CXO's
Leadership
28 Jun 2024
Sad Ads Friday
Downtime
27 Jun 2024
Views from the City: CXOs on the election
Geopolitics
21 Jun 2024
Taxis to be allowed back to Bank... maybe
Geopolitics
20 Jun 2024
City Munchies: Los Mochis
Downtime
20 Jun 2024
The opportunities from uncertainty
Wellbeing
19 Jun 2024
Growth strategy: the UK needs one.
Growth
19 Jun 2024
Growth Blockers Q2
Growth
03 Jun 2024
Are we putting too much faith in efficiency technologies? (Yes.)
AI
01 Jun 2024
Beyond the Red Pen: AI Efficiently Marks Essays in Minutes for Better Learning Outcomes
AI
14 May 2024
10 Best Michelin Star Restaurants in London
Downtime
01 May 2024
When sausage rolls go offline: The hidden cost of outages
AI
23 Apr 2024
72% of UK tech and services firms struggled to hit Q1 sales targets
Growth
09 Apr 2024
Easter treats
Leadership
09 Apr 2024
Darth Vader & the Contribution Chain
Growth
09 Apr 2024
Confidence
Leadership
09 Apr 2024
War, hidden gems and chip-heated pools
Geopolitics
09 Apr 2024
Empty airports and naming the enemy
Leadership
09 Apr 2024
Beating the big firms: Part 2
AI
09 Apr 2024
Welcome to the Executive Summary.
Leadership
09 Apr 2024
The Executive Summary: Episode 1
Leadership
04 Feb 2024
Beating the Big Four
Growth
29 Jan 2024
Biting the hand that feeds you
Growth
22 Jan 2024
WEF Selfies, Sweet Investing & 25 Teaser Topics
Downtime
19 Dec 2023
The last one...
Downtime
10 Dec 2023
Are you going into space?
Downtime
03 Dec 2023
The trouble with tenure
Leadership
26 Nov 2023
Is private equity about to change course?
Growth
07 Nov 2023
Pessimist or optimist?
Wellbeing
03 Nov 2023
Breathing Space
Wellbeing
01 Nov 2023
What mining means to your business
Growth
30 Oct 2023
Your Biggest Time Suck: The People Pleaser
Leadership
27 Oct 2023
Accenture: Execs say edge computing key to growth
AI
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