This morning I went along to the lovely offices of Lovells to attend the Profile face-to-face interview where Peter Bill (former editor of Estates Gazette and writer of a marvellous foreword in my second book) interviewed Ian Coull of SEGRO. I thought I’d share some of the highlights as it Read More
Last week I went along to the Open University Annual Lecture at which Nicola Horlick spoke on the topic of “Can you have it all?” I'm always interested in different perspectives on women in business. I actually bumped into her as I left the ladies loo in the beautiful wood Read More
Long ago a senior management consultant for whom I had great respect admonished me for working long hours and stressed the importance of focusing on the outputs rather than the inputs. At the time I was rather indignant – he was advocating that we should not be hung up about Read More
It’s that time again when we face a New Year with lots of good intentions and resolve that we will achieve those things that we have been meaning to get round to for so long. Work changing, life changing, health changing resolutions… But we often inadvertently commit ourselves to failure Read More
Dealing with stress? I first read this excellent book offering strategies for handling a fast paced life and dealing with stress by Dr Edward Hallowell, a psychiatrist, in December 2007. But many of the ideas (e.g. screen sucking, gigaguilt) have remained so vibrant to me as I have witnessed, amongst Read More