Like many of you, I have watched the horrors unfold in Afghanistan this week. There has been some excellent reporting — particularly by Al Jazeera on their English channel —…
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The Great SHEturn to Office
So much has been written about the forced mass exodus of women from the paid workforce during COVID-19. We know that women accounted for nearly 54% of job losses since…
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Strengths, Blind Spots and Tools for Professional Transformation
This week’s reading and listening focuses on the benefits of professional development, how to approach it and tools to facilitate success. There are perspectives on the hows and whys of…
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Are Consumer Attitudes Toward Privacy Changing?
Does DuckDuckGo’s business model — advertising without tracking consumer movements online or even consumer search behavior — signal a change in consumer attitudes and expectations? If so, what does it…
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How the Pandemic Changed the Way Americans Spend Their Time
The New York Times article More phone calls, less shopping: how the pandemic changed American lives, down to the minute examines data from the American Time Use survey to show the changes in how…
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How to Make Your Business More Attractive to Investors
Securing funding for a scale-up phase of a business is potentially more complex than securing funding as a startup. The risks and rewards are likely to be higher and there…
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B2B Senior Leadership: It’s Time to Face the Truth About Sales and Marketing
The yawning gulf between sales and marketing is a fact of life in B2B companies. We all know this. We struggle to meld the cultures. We talk about the need…
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Culture Essentials: Clarity of Purpose, Collaborative Relationships and Life-long Learning
This week’s collection reflects an eclectic range of reading and listening over the last couple of weeks. Thematically diverse in content and sourcing, these pieces all resonated with me and…
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RIP, Fleets
In a recent announcement that mattered to almost no one, Twitter let the world know that it’s shutting down Fleets – its full-screen tweets that expire after 24 hours a…
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The Return of Co-working and Third Places
In a clear signal that co-working is coming back post-pandemic, the high-end combo social club/co-working space Soho House went public last week under the name Membership Collective Group. Soho House is targeted…
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