ande macpherson

I’ve done a number of interviews for a couple of roles in our company in the past few weeks. If I had to sum it up in a word it would be - underwhelming.
Like most things, doing a great job interview isn’t rocket science:

focus on the important things
do them well
and be yourself

I thought I’d help [...]

As a youngster I was told that nobody could make me do anything - normally after saying “you make me so mad!”. It was my choice as to how I felt in the face of provocation. This is completely logical but when your brother ruins your favourite shirt it is easy to go nuts at [...]

I know where not far into 2009 but already I have a contender for book of the year.
It is Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell - you no doubt know he wrote Tipping Point and Blink. Both of which I liked but this is a real step forward. Maybe, he too, is learning through his previous experiences.
The [...]

For the last 24 hours I have watched as an old school New York publicist has been outed by a market leading US tech blog.
The thing that I find interesting in this exchange (where the tech crunch blog ask to be removed from publicist’s distribution list and she flames back aggressively saying she is just [...]

I welcome comments on the posts & other comments on this blog. But I thought it worth some guidelines:

I will decline to publish unacceptable content. I will define what is unacceptable content.

Taboo words do not define unacceptable content.
Meaning defines unacceptable content. Bigotry does. Unacceptable content may include sexist, racist, classist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic speech [...]