The term ‘work-life balance’ gets thrown around a lot, probably even more so since the COVID-19 pandemic and the increase in working from home. Without understanding it properly, it’s easy to feel like the obsession with work-life balance is woke nonsense for people who are…
The problem is I love making plans. I’m just hopeless at following them. For years I thought this was a real failing, and then I realised why we make plans in the first place. Heading out on holiday Take the analogy of an aircraft flying…
“If I saw my competitor drowning in a lake, I’d fetch a fire hose and stick it in his mouth,” a client once told me. I was astonished that anyone could express anything quite so heartless. Some weeks later I conducted a Psychometric profile for…
After 20 years of working from home, I know very well the joy of the kids playing the drums outside the office door, the cat playing hopscotch on the keyboard and the call of Sunday’s incomplete DIY job at the back of your mind. Our…
