6 September 2024
Anu Carnegie-Brown
For any brand, building a connection with your global audience is a crucial part of your marketing and sales str...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
29 May 2019
Anu Carnegie-Brown
History is written by the victors. I pondered this much debated quote when studying the latest language services...
2 April 2019
Anu Carnegie-Brown
The eleventh annual Language of Business conference hosted by the Globalization and Localization Association (GA...
12 February 2019
Anu Carnegie-Brown
While the political Brexit cauldron keeps churning, seething and frothing, UK businesses of every size and in ev...
11 January 2019
Anu Carnegie-Brown
Sixteen students approaching the end of their studies. One teacher interested in enhancing their employability. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
22 May 2018
Anu Carnegie-Brown
(Photo: Slator) Effective menu planning is essential for a first-rate party, and the team behind SlatorCon Londo...
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...
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...
14 September 2017
Anu Carnegie-Brown
Another month, another acquisition. Private equity investors have deemed the highly-fragmented language market t...
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...
1 June 2017
Anu Carnegie-Brown
When you hear the words ‘peer support,’ an organisation like Alcoholics Anonymous may well be the first thin...
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 ...
6 April 2017
Anu Carnegie-Brown
I recently came across this website where, to celebrate International Women’s Day, business leaders wrote lett...
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...
1 February 2017
Anu Carnegie-Brown
I like visiting universities. Hip students stroll the corridors talking about alien things in alien ways. Time s...
5 January 2017
Anu Carnegie-Brown
It’s around now – on Twelfth Night, or Epiphany – that many Christians celebrate the wise men arriving at ...
15 December 2016
Anu Carnegie-Brown
Most managers think that employees quit for pay-related reasons. There is research that supports this view, but ...
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 ...
7 October 2016
Anu Carnegie-Brown
Do you ever feel disillusioned when you read advice on burnout prevention, stress management and work-life balan...
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...