
Young Leaders and Why (Not) Hate Them
Smarmy, annoying and overconfident, perhaps. But they don’t need to be like that. Continue reading Young Leaders and Why (Not) Hate Them
Smarmy, annoying and overconfident, perhaps. But they don’t need to be like that. Continue reading Young Leaders and Why (Not) Hate Them
What would a management consultant do in a Viking village? Continue reading Consultants in the Viking Age
You are sitting in a grey office on a gloomy day, tried, and after yet another frustrating day, you are thinking your life is going to waste. You take your phone, and see a person – maybe even a friend – sipping cocktails on a tropical beach and bragging about their freedom, and – more gratingly – being bale to afford a care-free, happy life … Continue reading Corporate to Creative in 10 Gruelling Steps: A Realist’s Guide
Today marks a year since I quit my job as a consultant in London. I will probably never forget the anxiety that the lead-up to handing my notice caused: there were daily conferences with my parents since I decided on my course of action 6 months prior, countless drunken discussions with friends, nights spent imagining a dramatically destitute broken life that I feared my decision … Continue reading So you want to quit your job and find yourself? A few tips from a year later
The link between depression and over-achievement gets in the media cyclically and when it does it gets a lot of attention. Most recently, the flurry of reporting and analysis was brought on by the suicide of Martin Senn, a former CEO of Zurich Insurance and was linked by media to a similar incidents of the prominent business people taking their lives (and reminded me of … Continue reading The drama of the corporate man-child: What Alice Miller can teach insecure over-achievers?
A musical accompaniment to the drudgery of finding a job Continue reading Jobhunt! A playlist