Freelance journalist. Former editor of @MT_editorial. Somewhat reluctant Twitterer.
Joined November 2013
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Ludicrous? Maybe, but what would you do if you ran a tobacco company? Either you try to fight anti-smoking regulations (which is what the industry did for decades) or you figure out a way of not being a tobacco company...
theguardian.com/business/202…
An end of an era for me - I'm leaving @MT_editorial after 7 years to go freelance. Thanks to all my fantastic colleagues, old and new, for your guidance, support and tea-making skills managementtoday.co.uk/farewe…
Just sent an email with the typo 'Man thanks' in the sign-off. Can't believe I haven't done that before. I must say it has a certain ring to it though...
I would like to propose we ban the use of the word 'action' as a verb, as in 'I want you to action this'.
It is not a verb, and it drives me nuts. Or should I say it cars me nuts.
Do. Do is a really good verb, very simple.
'Do this. I want you to do this.'
While politicians make threats, scientists make progress - British & Iranian researchers working together on such an important problem bbc.co.uk/news/health-494343…
If his Debenham’s takeover doesn’t work out, maybe Mike Ashley could try his hand at Brexit negotiations... bbc.co.uk/news/business-4784…
Make that only five female CEOs in the FTSE 100 (unless Laury’s replacement is another woman). The rate is significantly worse, incidentally, in the FTSE 250 bbc.co.uk/news/business-4763…
PR softener or the beginnings of a meaningful change in stakeholder management? bbc.co.uk/news/business-4571…
Our infrastructure projects appear to be run by those people who are always 15 minutes late for meetings, because they assumed there wouldn’t be any traffic, or that Jill from accounts wouldn’t collar them on the way out. ‘Time optimists’, they’re called theguardian.com/uk-news/2018…
I’ll believe this when I land on it.
standard.co.uk/news/transpor…
Oh, Greggs has posted disappointing results for once - this calls for a slightly different baking pun. ‘As flaky as a steak bake’ or ‘crumbles in tough market conditions’ or something equally awful
