August 2026

There is a perfectly innocent question that becomes surprisingly difficult when you move out of a long held role. “And what do you do?” For years, the answer came out before you had even properly heard the question. I lead Learning and Development. I’m a CFO. I run operations. I’m Head of HR. Then one...

Many of us Scrabble players believe in the Tile Fairy. Even the sensible ones. She is the kindly little creature who hovers somewhere above the tile bag, notices you’re desperately short of an E and quietly slips one in just before your opponent draws it. She brings you the blank when you’ve already decided exactly...

It is 10:07 on Tuesday morning and a project has developed what management is calling “a slight wobble.” A slight wobble is corporate language for being on fire, but with the fire still awaiting approval from Communications. The deadline has been missed. The client is unhappy. Several important figures appear to have been calculated using...