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Posted by: Rob Ashton
20 / 06 / 24
The headline almost leapt out of my screen. It was June 2020. Every day was bringing another batch of harrowing news stories. Yet this one, on the website of The Mirror, still stood out: ‘Tragic coronavirus death toll rises by lowest number in seven weeks.’ Whoever had written it may never have been near […]
13 / 06 / 24
One of the biggest killers of great ideas (and even greater careers) has to be imposter syndrome. I’ve met countless professionals who were held back by a lack of confidence in their own knowledge and expertise. It’s almost always unjustified and it always breaks my heart. Nowhere to hide Every year, my colleagues see […]
10 / 06 / 24
I’ve got a quick question for you. How many people live in the Australian capital of Sydney? Is it two million? Five million? Seven million? The answer, of course, is none of those. Canberra is the capital of Australia, not Sydney. Well done if you spotted the mistake. But if you didn’t, you won’t be […]
24 / 05 / 24
A few years ago, a leading NHS trauma surgeon I was working with transformed treatment in her emergency department. She did it, not with a scalpel or the latest medical device, but with a lowly Word document. She’d needed approval for a new way to prioritise the most urgent cases. Her idea would free up […]
13 / 05 / 24
Organisations are full of documents that don’t work. The CEO of a London bank recently told me that he’d spent 20 minutes of his last board meeting arguing over the meaning of a single paragraph in a report. And the board had to get through ten other similar reports in that meeting. Common mistake […]
02 / 05 / 24
If you’re putting off writing a tricky email or text right now, you’re not alone. According to a recent poll by YouGov, almost one in three adults (31%) say they’re currently struggling to compose a message or have struggled to recently. And the survey of over 3,000 people in Great Britain shows the problem is […]
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