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Your Id Isn't Your ID.

October 16, 2019

I was born in Germany, but I am not German in any way. I have only ever held a British passport and documents were signed within days of my birth to ensure...

October 8, 2019

This weekend, large numbers of people across the world elected to see The Joker, a very human story that broke all records for an October release. However...

October 1, 2019

Hello and welcome to the newsletter that puts People First in a ‘Corporate First’ world. If you’d like to sign up, you can do so here. Or just read on… I am...

Your Identity. Your Data. It's Personal.

September 25, 2019

The Pay, Purpose, Play, Passion model of Work’ has been previously written about. Today we explore ‘Data’ in the context of ‘The Business Equation’. It...

September 17, 2019

The third Ted Talk from Nick Hanauer went online just last week. To be honest, I had not heard of him until last week, but his talk resonated. I mean had he...

Rewriting History

September 10, 2019

“Those who tell you ‘Do not put too much politics in your art’ are not being honest,”Chinua Achebe observed in his superb forgotten conversation with James...

September 3, 2019

Instead of spending the next five minutes reading my words, spend the next five minutes thinking about why you usually read them and ask yourself if they add...

Following Your Passion. Finding Your Purpose.

August 27, 2019

I have a blog series called ‘Travels Without Charlie’. Each anonymized post is a short story that reflects someone I have met on my travels and reveals one...

Fitting In Might Be All Bullshit

August 20, 2019

An enlightening Ted Talk and just like Carlin before him - The American Dream is under attack. But this time there is more. This is not just about America....

August 13, 2019

As some of you know and likely just as many of you don’t, this newsletter is emerging from an initiative that has been building in my brain for a few years....

A warm welcome to a number of new subscribers that have joined us over the past week. This week’s newsletter is short and to the point as we continue to...

Double Digit Delivery

Though this Newsletter has been around intermittently for a few years now, I only harnessed it as a vehicle to share People First thinking in May of this...

🎵 TADA 🎵 A New Look At 'DATA'

Data, one of the People First Pillars, is this week’s topic that links through to my 4-part series recently published by BizCatalyst360. The series is...

Work-Life Balance

I don’t know this for a fact, but I don’t for one minute believe that John Mayall has ever - ever - considered his Work-Life Balance. By the way - if you...

Ditch The Binary

Dear Mr. JaggerIt has come to out attention that the drummer of your band - The Rolling Stones - has just turned 78, but continues to perform with your band....

The Challenge Of Work

I watched ‘The Numbers Station’ over the weekend - not the greatest movie - but it was only ninety minutes! The opening dialogue resonated, so I wrote about...

Corporate Speak

I was going to avoid the ‘language discussion’ until later in the year, but that changed this past week after I received an email from a long time friend,...

All Else Follows

People Are Our Greatest Assets Hamid Ulukaya, recently delivered an excellent Ted Talk on how Chobani started. As he was buying that factory and looking...

People First - Issue 3

The theme for this week’s edition is 'Humanity’. Five ‘connected things’ with a single theme, though not a single narrative. Beyond Logos and Catch Phrases I...

People First - Supply and Demand

We have been trained to think that;The ‘supply chain’ is where businesses buy what they need to produce the products and services they sell to other...

People First - An Introduction

In Brief People make their money through ‘business’.People save or spend their money with a ‘business’.People are thus central to any business. So why does...

Goon - But Not Forgotten

A couple of newsletters ago, I dispatched a newsletter cleverly titled ‘Newsletters’. I included an image of 5 people, wondering if you knew of them and...

Some of you might be expecting an answer to the question posed here, but that isn’t for another 5 days … the 28th.Some of you might be overwhelmed - another...

With this weeks announcements from MailChimp, nothing dissuaded me from continuing the cull of service providers and aggregation of lists . Don’t worry, I...

September 19, 2018

Jeff had worked in Somerset for 4 years. Emma’s mother was born in England. Now they lived in America. Together. We found ourselves talking over a couple of...

A First From People First

February 6, 2018

It was the Summer of last year when a small team of us launched a new initiative called People First. At the time you signed up and agreed to receiving an...

February 6, 2018

… and our plans were for a totally different approach to Newsletters than we are about to try out. Substack have just announced their public beta and so we...