Anu Carnegie-Brown

Director’s Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

Director’s Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

Director’s Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

1 June 2023

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Have you ever stopped to think about the ownership structure of your company, and what it means?  For Sandberg,...

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Annual reports and the art of selling your story

Annual reports and the art of selling your story

Annual reports and the art of selling your story

24 February 2023

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Few financial statements have a broader audience than a company’s annual report. Not only does it summarise th...

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Director’s Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through content

Director’s Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through...

Director’s Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through...

12 January 2022

Anu Carnegie-Brown

For quite some time, I’ve been wishing that we had a more inspiring mission statement. A mission statement tha...

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Director’s Cut, take 30: Growing up – which stage are you at?

Director’s Cut, take 30: Growing up – which stage ar...

Director’s Cut, take 30: Growing up – which stage ar...

3 September 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

How does an SME grow from an owner-managed one-man business to a globally impactful player? I don’t mean the g...

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Director’s Cut, take 29: Made to measure

Director’s Cut, take 29: Made to measure

Director’s Cut, take 29: Made to measure

2 June 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

When I was younger, I had the same vital statistics as Marilyn Monroe. However, whilst my chest, waist and hips ...

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Director’s Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

Director’s Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

Director’s Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

31 March 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I recently missed the start of a live online talk I’d agreed to give. It was due to a misunderstanding about t...

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Director’s Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

Director’s Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

Director’s Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

15 December 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Those three little words, ‘home for Christmas’, have been on my mind recently. They’ve featured high on my...

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Director’s Cut, take 26: Going from good to great with mentoring

Director’s Cut, take 26: Going from good to great wi...

Director’s Cut, take 26: Going from good to great wi...

22 October 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

“Do you have a few minutes so I could run something by you?” These words come out of my mouth quite frequent...

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Director’s Cut, take 25: Who’s on board?

Director’s Cut, take 25: Who’s on board?

Director’s Cut, take 25: Who’s on board?

5 August 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Last night, I found myself on a sinking ship. It was only a tender, the size of a large rowing boat, and we were...

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The world at your fingertips

The world at your fingertips

The world at your fingertips

30 July 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

At the end of the first day of the virtual LocWorldWide42 conference, I have managed to form two firm opinions. ...

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Director’s Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

Director’s Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

Director’s Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

24 June 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

In the 1871 sequel to Lewis Carroll’s renowned first novel, Alice crosses back into the Wonderland, this time ...

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Director’s Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

Director’s Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

Director’s Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

7 April 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

The egg is an emblem of unhatched potential. The global COVID-19 crisis may have left us shellshocked, cracked, ...

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Director’s Cut, take 22: The future isn’t what it used to be

Director’s Cut, take 22: The future isn’t what it us...

Director’s Cut, take 22: The future isn’t what it us...

9 January 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

It’s a new year and (arguably) a new decade; the time for experts to demonstrate their expertise by foretellin...

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Director’s Cut, take 21: What’s value worth?

Director’s Cut, take 21: What’s value worth?

Director’s Cut, take 21: What’s value worth?

19 November 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

The pressure is on. Five hundred pairs of eyes are fixed on me, some expectantly, others critically. I have no i...

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Director’s Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

Director’s Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

Director’s Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

9 October 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

How long does it take to teach someone to use the loo? For some, learning this fundamental part of life apparent...

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Director’s Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

Director’s Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

Director’s Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

5 July 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Business tends to be more interested in output than input. Clients rarely ask how you put together the service y...

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Director’s Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the World’s Largest LSPs Index 2019)

Director’s Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the Wor...

Director’s Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the Wor...

29 May 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

History is written by the victors. I pondered this much debated quote when studying the latest language services...

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What happened in Munich: Awards for artistic and technical merit at GALA 2019

What happened in Munich: Awards for artistic and tec...

What happened in Munich: Awards for artistic and tec...

2 April 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

The eleventh annual Language of Business conference hosted by the Globalization and Localization Association (GA...

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Director’s Cut, take 17: Conducting business after Brexit

Director’s Cut, take 17: Conducting business after B...

Director’s Cut, take 17: Conducting business after B...

12 February 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

While the political Brexit cauldron keeps churning, seething and frothing, UK businesses of every size and in ev...

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Does higher education still prepare people for jobs?

Does higher education still prepare people for jobs?

Does higher education still prepare people for jobs?

11 January 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Sixteen students approaching the end of their studies. One teacher interested in enhancing their employability. ...

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Director’s Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

Director’s Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

Director’s Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

4 December 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I have a British colleague who joined STP in May 2018. After six months at the company, this experienced HR prof...

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Director’s Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

Director’s Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

Director’s Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

12 November 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

English is currently the world’s most commonly taught foreign language, and it is so widely spoken that it is ...

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Director’s Cut, take 14: Selfie

Director’s Cut, take 14: Selfie

Director’s Cut, take 14: Selfie

19 September 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

You have worked long and hard to build a solid reputation. You are not worried about what people say when you le...

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Looking in on Finland

Looking in on Finland

Looking in on Finland

11 September 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

A brief visit to my native Finland last week included a day at #KIELI2018, the annual conference of Finnish Lang...

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SlatorCon London in six courses

SlatorCon London in six courses

SlatorCon London in six courses

22 May 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

(Photo: Slator) Effective menu planning is essential for a first-rate party, and the team behind SlatorCon Londo...

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Why I am not attending Elia Networking Days for Executives

Why I am not attending Elia Networking Days for Exec...

Why I am not attending Elia Networking Days for Exec...

24 April 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I am not attending Elia ND Focus this year merely to engage in two days of high level business talk. I am going...

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Director’s Cut, take 13: Give and take

Director’s Cut, take 13: Give and take

Director’s Cut, take 13: Give and take

28 September 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Voluntary engagement in the affairs of your industry is a matter of give and take. In fact, the giving and takin...

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Director’s Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

Director’s Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

Director’s Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

14 September 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Another month, another acquisition. Private equity investors have deemed the highly-fragmented language market t...

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Director’s Cut, take 11: The curtain

Director’s Cut, take 11: The curtain

Director’s Cut, take 11: The curtain

6 July 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

‘It’s always been a dream of mine to have done a TED talk – in the past.’ Tim Urban made me smile with t...

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Director’s Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

Director’s Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

Director’s Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

1 June 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

When you hear the words ‘peer support,’ an organisation like Alcoholics Anonymous may well be the first thin...

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Director’s Cut, take 9: Image conscious

Director’s Cut, take 9: Image conscious

Director’s Cut, take 9: Image conscious

4 May 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

There’s an old joke you may know about Finnish people. A Frenchman, an American and a Finn are walking in the ...

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Director’s Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

Director’s Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

Director’s Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

6 April 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I recently came across this website where, to celebrate International Women’s Day, business leaders wrote lett...

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Director’s Cut, take 7: Virtually there

Director’s Cut, take 7: Virtually there

Director’s Cut, take 7: Virtually there

2 March 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Your technology facilitates it, your people appreciate it, your type of work can sustain it. Yet how do you turn...

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Director’s Cut, take 6: University challenges

Director’s Cut, take 6: University challenges

Director’s Cut, take 6: University challenges

1 February 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I like visiting universities. Hip students stroll the corridors talking about alien things in alien ways. Time s...

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Director’s Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

Director’s Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

Director’s Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

5 January 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

It’s around now – on Twelfth Night, or Epiphany – that many Christians celebrate the wise men arriving at ...

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Director’s Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

Director’s Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

Director’s Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

15 December 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Most managers think that employees quit for pay-related reasons. There is research that supports this view, but ...

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Director’s Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

Director’s Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

Director’s Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

2 November 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

“I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph” was the motto of Iznogoud, the wicked, scheming grand vizier of ...

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Director’s Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

Director’s Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

Director’s Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

7 October 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Do you ever feel disillusioned when you read advice on burnout prevention, stress management and work-life balan...

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Director’s Cut, take 1: Ikänäköala

Director’s Cut, take 1: Ikänäköala

Director’s Cut, take 1: Ikänäköala

8 September 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I turned 50 this summer. And since it has taken me half a century to get blogging, I feel compelled to explain t...

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