How to win a strategic bun fight
Use black-sheep thinking and run fast
Briefings on leadership, boards and running a company, written for FTSE and Fortune executives.
Use black-sheep thinking and run fast
Can the marketing CEO build and deliver a sales plan?
What companies are using it for and what your board should be asking
Leadership
Thank you
It's all in the Executive Summary
Leadership
The City CIO Club is growing
Leadership
Change or adapt. Either stay and get wet or move to shelter.
Leadership
A lesson from Keir Starmer's latest failcake of a speech
Leadership
A masterclass in English language and defensive communication
Leadership
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece called "How many people can I fire?". For some reason, it upset a number of folks who don't agree there will be job cuts and massive shifts from AI. I had quite a few emails - and believe it or not, I really like it when people write in with what they
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
Over Christmas, I read The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz. My friend Todd Wade, an excellent Chief Information Security Officer, gave it to me for my birthday. It's a warts-and-all account of how hard it is to be a CEO and the junk you have to deal with as part of the job.