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What stopped the riot?
Many years ago, severe flooding in northeast Brazil meant food deliveries couldn’t get through to a psychiatric hospital.The patients were hungry and frustrated because they were being given the same food they had already eaten earlier that day.Eventually, a riot broke out. The Brazilian cuscuz they were offered ended up all over the walls and floors. It wasn’t
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I was asked to keep this secret.
While at lunch at the Groucho Club in March Sir John Hegarty lowered his voice and then told me a secret. I wasn’t
The mask you don’t know you’re wearing
Someone recently told me a story about them being in a meeting and feeling that they had to perform the whole time, they
Twenty years ago, this felt impossible
So, last week I was named Most Influential HR Businesswoman 2026 in the UK by Acquisition International Magazine.And while I am hugely (!) grateful
Outside the usual room
Most companies say they want people to think differently.But different thinking very rarely comes from sitting in the same meetings, with the same people,
So much for the plan.
The other night I was singing “happy birthday” to a friend who had just turned 50, while the city around us was flooding.Not
Out of hierarchy. Into something else.
What happens when you take people out of their roles, out of their hierarchy, and place them somewhere completely unfamiliar? Just a couple of weeks
