This week Cindy Gallop shared the open letter that Joan Gabel, president of the University of Minnesota wrote in response to the murder of George Floyd. Earlier today I came across these further examples of leadership in our times. This is remarkable https://t.co/7c7UF55Kqq— Mara Gay (@MaraGay) May 30, 2020 If you’re like me, looking to… Continue reading →

In the before times I went to a lot of events. Sometimes I had two or three in one day. The only thing that’s changed in lockdown has been the significantly reduced travel time. The other day I was booked into four different webinars in one evening. I know that a key part of strategy… Continue reading →

Last week I received a rejection. It’s been a good couple of years for rejections. The WACL Future Leaders Award, the Marketing Academy… now this one too. It stung. My first thought was: good. That means you wanted it. Which means you were putting yourself out there, going for something you wanted, taking a risk…. Continue reading →

I finished reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder a few weeks ago. Taleb is well-known as the author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, about rare and unpredictable outlier events. A number of people have labelled COVID-19 a black swan, something Taleb himself has refuted. The pandemic… Continue reading →