Director’s Cut

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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