In the content team at Cisco we have a saying: if you’re working on something alone, there’s a problem. We all know the benefits of working collaboratively, how important it is to get different views (or insights, to use some business speak) on a work product. So, very often we’ll be asked to feedback on […]
Category Archives: Personal Brand
Speak truth to power
This week Sir Ivan Rogers, Britain’s former EU ambassador quit. In his resignation letter sent to his staff he spoke about the importance of speaking truth to power. While many in the press have called this a thinly veiled criticism of the government’s Brexit strategy (and it undoubtedly is) it is also an important reminder […]
7 books to bring your brain back to brand
If you’re anything like me you’re planning on spending the next couple of weeks full of, let’s say, “Christmas Cheer”. But come January you’re going to have to step back into the office with something vaguely intelligent to say. Here are 7 books that I recommend to get you back fighting fit for your first […]
Trust me. I’m a plumber.
In Dave Trott’s excellent book Predatory Thinking he tells a story about a plumber. An elderly man had switched his heating on in winter but the radiators weren’t warming up. For the elderly this can be a serious problem. He called a plumber who looked at the elderly man’s old boiler. He felt around the […]