You’ll likely know of the poster with large letters proclaiming ‘Work Hard & Be Nice To People’. Perhaps you’ve seen it on the wall of a local coffee shop or it’s popped up on Instagram. Anthony Burrill is the graphic artist behind this highly popular message; just one of many…

It’s a long way up Getting to the summit can be arduous, but the feeling you get when you achieve your aim, and it’s all gone to plan, makes it all worth it. Whatever your highly-demanding, high-risk project — whether that’s a product launch, a big conference, setting up a new operation — success depends…

“Why walk when you could get an Uber?” That’s what my friend asked me when I told him my family and I had walked over 40 miles in four and a half days in Manhattan. So why walk rather than Uber? Because the beauty is in the wander. When we…

There was a wonderful moment on holiday in NYC last week. On our first day in the city I’d taken my sons to the huge Uniqlo store on Fifth Avenue. As I was leaving I noticed a stack of Uniqlo ‘LifeWear’ magazines by the door. It was definitely one of…

In his early twenties Ian Rogers, chief experience officer at cryptocurrency company Ledger, got a tattoo on his forearms. The tattoo stretches across his right hand and onto his fingers. In an interview with the Financial Times in 2018 Ian explains that the tattoo was his younger self seeking to…

A few years ago my wife Zoë started an experiment. She set her alarm for 5.30am. Already a fairly early riser, she pushed her start time back a good hour. Zoë says she started the experiment as a way to counter the sense she had of the day always running…

In the beginning It was March 1977, I was eight years old. One day at school I swallowed a marble. I wrote a three page story all about it, ‘An hour to remember’. It included my mother’s reaction, the trip to hospital, what happened next. I think of it as my very first…

It was late March 2020. The sun was shining, the UK was in lockdown and the pandemic had mothballed most of my talks and workshops. So, I had time on my hands. In our little summerhouse at the foot of the garden I started a new daily practice, revisiting a…

In October 2017, Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella published a post on LinkedIn about his experiences of becoming a father (‘The moment that forever changed our lives’). His son, Zain, was born prematurely in 1996. He has severe cerebral palsy that requires 24/7 care. In his post, Satya explains how Zain’s…