The Tyranny of Information Flow

I was working at a client’s office yesterday. Normally, I’d be able to keep up with my emails and RSS feeds on the two-hour train journey down to London, but I had the misfortune of taking one of the trains that did not have any power points. I was working on ancient laptop at the [...]

Babies in the Boardroom

Today is Take your Daughter to Work Day in the US, and I imagine that along with those who are thrilled to have their pride and joy roaming the office corridors, there are also parents who are feeling more frazzled than usual, having to cope not only with the demands of their usual office day, [...]

The Slippery Slope to Corporate Authoritarianism

First they came for the biscuit-munchers, but I was not a biscuit-muncher, so I did not speak out.Then they came for the coffee-slurpers and late-lunchers, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.Then they came for the pie-eaters, but I was not a pie-eater, so I did not speak out.And when they came [...]