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Build On Tideway Success

This is not made up. A big ticket UK infrastructure project just got delivered on-time, and to budget. Albeit with price tag and slight delay caveats courtesy of lockdown disruption and consequent inflation spike. Still, it is stunning in its rarity. There are many lessons contained within. Indeed, there'

Beyond Baller Potential Talent

“I’m not a football expert. There’s definitely people better than me at spotting talent and I’ve got people very close to me who advise me on players. But what I am very good at is analysing the human side of the player, the mentality side. Talent’s

Let’s try and work out how to get back on track

POTUS x @ElonMusk For Charlie. pic.twitter.com/Inaf8X81Gy — The White House (@WhiteHouse) September 22, 2025 How are you doing? So Elon, I've heard you wanted to chat. Let’s try and work out how to get back on track. I've missed you. Real or imagined,

Are You Happy To Sign Off On That?

I was in close proximity to a techie talking with a client. Soft spoken, deliberate, measured speech. The phone conversation focused on an issue one had which the other could aid. There was a 'we could do this, we could do that' segment. Just as the chat seemed

Crushing the Tantric Sector

Much of procurement, marketing, management and consulting belongs to the tantric sector — white-collar welfare that prolongs meetings, multiplies decks and avoids making ideas people actually enjoy via @rorysutherland https://t.co/r8LkxHlrp7 pic.twitter.com/sG9PwzlpKi — Praveen Vaidyanathan (@v_praveen) September 11, 2025 The latest essential observation of Rory Sutherland.

Labelling Huckster Trick

Screenshot from her 'reel'. As she identifies, the technique of 'labelling' is where you project the desired quality or behaviour on to the person you seek to influence. She features the faux/dangerous example of moulding your other half. To be your 'best ever'

Golden Moments Frieze

At 2:08 from "Inside Training", notice how all the best moments from the current season had been captured and put on the wall of the training room. New tradition? 👀 pic.twitter.com/ZakRNX4tPp — The Anfield Buzz (@TheAnfieldBuzz) September 10, 2025 Football fan bantz. No sooner had the

The Empty Chair Speaks

I first learned of one from a wrong turn off a Sarajevo street. How did that end? If indeed, it ever has. Political assassination anywhere can head news feeds everywhere. So stark and shocking as they can be. Given the editor adage, 'it it bleeds, it leads' this

Does Your Offering Pass The Douglas Adams Test?

“We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works. How do you recognise something that is still technology? A good clue is if it comes with a manual.” Douglas Adams This mid-90s quote from the peerless humourist and Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy

Surely We Better Than AI 1-in-20 Hit-Rate?

"Despite $30-40bn in enterprise investment into Gen[erative]AI, [our] report uncovers a surprising result in that 95pc of organisations are getting zero return" — MIT Researchers, August 2025 This finding - albeit seemingly from a questionably small and opaque sample size - coincidentally landed just as ChatGPT5'