Is the death of hybrid greatly exaggerated? On the vlog today our research into what does work. https://t.co/bNYr0BAmA0

It’s nearly useless to take advice from billionaires, both literal and figurative. Even if the advice is interesting. The problems, challenges & pitfalls that threaten someone in the top 0.001% of their field (business, athletics, acting, storytelling, etc) are so utterly exotic

@PendulumSummit 2025 was truly epic! Loved my role as MC 🎤 Here’s the roundup… @antmiddleton 👊@SugarRayLeonard 🥊@AndreAgassi 🎾 @jimmycarr 🤣 @maryportas 🛍️@CArmstrongLDN were my favourites!

What a real treat to have the ultra-dynamic @CArmstrongLDN with a bit of razzmatazz in sequins to captivate @TheCCD auditorium with her talk on the Future of Work... #PendulumSummit

What a quick fire data ssession with @CArmstrongLDN ! 10% of Irish workers are fully engaged! 43% of employees would rather get divorced then return to the office ! @PendulumSummit #pendulumsummit

The mere mention of the word "restructuring" is enough to shake up corporate souls. Here 👇 is a an interesting conversation between @andrewtghill, @CArmstrongLDN and @IsabelBerwick on this topic.

How to survive corporate restructuring - “a fundamental shaking of people’s identity” - @CArmstrongLDN and I had fun talking about this serious topic to @IsabelBerwick for the latest edition of the FT’s Working It

To reinforce that layoff programmes are short-term and ignore longer term costs, new research published in @HarvardBiz by @didierelzinga & Amy Lavoie shows the hit to employee engagement among those people remaining takes years to recover, with a direct link to performance.

Most restructuring and employee layoffs are done for short-term or bad reasons or they are badly handled. @CArmstrongLDN @andrewtghill on the @FT Working It Podcast talking (un)common sense on how to manage layoffs better and avoid the worst errors.

"There's no single worse thing you can say to someone who is burnt out than 'Why don't you go for a walk?'" Myself and Christine Armstrong talked about an inspirationally candid LinkedIn post about burn out - and what any of us can do to beat it. https://t.co/gZAATaig84

Uma Thurman was married to Jackson Lamb

A project I worked on had Fix It Fridays, where the digital team were encouraged to, one Friday a month, take time out to fix a process that wasn’t working, or spend a day working at the frontline to understand how stuff actually worked. Got SO many good ideas from it.

6) doing one thing well is OF COURSE better that doing six things half arsed…. Plus tech companies love a bit of exhibition drama

5) you do need to try and work WITH your service provider and don’t overcomplicate things if you want it to actually work… too much customisation causes chaos

4) dirty data in, nonsense out - if no one sorts the original data the whole shebang is doomed

3) Still too much ‘fire & forget’ 🚀 so systems get cobwebbed and everyone moves onto the next one - reducing trust & enthusiasm

2) focusing on ‘tech solutions’ - not telling stories about the problems and how they get solved

Two days @HRTechUK mostly talking about why so many big tech corporate projects fail… 1) too much doing - not enough pause to identify the real problem

This things I do for my kids! #pagetiger @HRTechUK

Hancock Syndrome = the opposite of (hate the term) Imposter Syndrome. Not enough doubt, questioning, reflection, thought. Subject of last week’s vlog in which I made a bid to ban the imposter stuff entirely.

Sports day is THE WORST day of the school calendar, including World Book Day. Am I right?