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How many friends can you have?

I’m often asked at workshops: How big should my network be? And in the past, I tended to reply somewhat sarcastically: How long is a piece of string? In other words, if you ask a silly question, you get a silly answer. But on reflection, the question isn’t quite so...

Networking or Connecting?

I don’t often blow my own trumpet (after all, who wants to read endless blogs about the amazing workshops and masterclasses I run? Better to come to one, and see for yourself.) But at a session I ran last week for Focus (www.focus-info.org), an organisation that works...

The future is soft!

Networks are amazing things. By belonging to one network, a blog alerts me to another update, and eventually leads me to a fascinating report by the World Economic Forum. The report was published in 2016, and has taken a while to filter through – but the main thing is...

The Skills Gap

Ever since my time at London Business School, I’ve felt that we all too undervalue effective communication skills at work (and in our private lives too, of course). At LBS, one of the key concepts on the Operations Management course was that of ‘order...

Micro-aggression

Thinking about names again (it seems to be a theme at the moment), last week Laurie Taylor interviewed @NasarMeer (Professor of Race, Identity and Citizenship at #EdinburghUni) on #ThinkingAllowed on #Radio 4 about what he calls ‘micro-aggression’. How should one...