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Latest — Dec 10, 2025

Fuzzy Charting

Here's an interesting slant. Pic taken in tricky surrounds from a newspaper print edition. Hopefully the message still visible. When a chart raises questions, it can be a useful exercise. With this assessment, you ask such as, 'why is the top country so ahead?' It's not America, hey. With

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Frenetic Lowering

The charismatic leader trope is largely mocking right now. The 'force of nature' boss as a totem endures kickings of late. Perhaps the largest 'academic' ripping down came with the From Good To Great "finding'' that the supposedly boring chief exec outshone the tubthumper. The veracity of this research is

Meeting Done SBAR The Counting

Further to my recent post on the four sentence rule, here's one such template option. SBAR stands for Situation, Background, Assessment, Recommendation. As the structure for each of your four sentences. This is readily searchable. In essence it suits concise, sharp speech. Apparently borne of medical and naval environments. Where

Yes or No Culture Divide

Dubai. Been there couple o' times. Has its issues. But has a crackle of business. London. Longtime in and around. Has its issues. Now there's the clatter of everything falling apart. A business owner - with a super online service up and running a few years now - recently left

Wall Street Culture Signalling Hellscape

Congratulations @jpmorgan on the opening of your new headquarters! 🎉🇺🇸🙏 pic.twitter.com/Dnhw2SkbYe — Michael Dell 🇺🇸 (@MichaelDell) October 23, 2025 Posted by the boss of perhaps the screen vendor and more besides. Basking in presumed glow of deal clinched. At the betting shop, aka a new home of Big Bankster traders.

Your Teacher Appears

In conversation with someone wondering where all the buyers were - and not solely induced through state policy horror - I offered the time-honoured soothe that stems from the adoption curve. Simply put, it helps you realise that not everyone is ready to buy at the same time. Take-up happens

Negative Slide Negatived

Trends cycle round with presentation design. One that seems in thrall to fashion is the text-only, short message slide. Originally, if such a thing did exist, it was black text on white. Then as Millennium dawned, the background was best advised dark, with light text atop. Yet the blank white

Fester List Urgency Misnomer

I've had a few discussions this past month about meeting etiquette. Sparked by a reveal from the Airbnb boss. Irked 'underlings surreptitiously glance at their screens while he was being an Inspiring Thought Leader' [thanks, Harry Wallop]. Yet caught tapping away on his own phone instead of being present at

The More Frequent The Trading, The Lower The Returns

Are we in an AI bubble? We might not care. Although if so and it bursts, we'll be hit. As corporate buying will likely freeze. I remember first studying bubbles as a teen. Tulip Mania seemed quite the Dutch chuckle, with flowers and their bulbs rocketing in price twentyfold -

Success Pie Slices

"Success is not like a pie where if one person gets a slice there is less for everyone else. The miracle of the universe is that it is possible for one person’s success to inspire more success, and then more, creating a cascade that enlarges the pie for everyone.