Business leaders I’m speaking to right now are wrestling with the same challenge. How to re-create an energetic, productive office environment post-pandemic. A sensitive debate is in play. CEOs want to fill the workspace four or five days a week. They tend to reflect this in…
These quoted words, from US author of the Dune saga Frank Herbert, have been charging around my head since the infamous ‘fiscal event’ of 23rd September. That was the day when our prime minister and her chancellor conspired to crash the UK economy. Regardless of political…
What a couple of weeks. No sooner do we have a new prime minister than our monarch of 70 years dies. At least we specialise in marking such events with faultless ceremony and Queen Elizabeth’s funeral was an extraordinary exemplar. Britishness at its most leveraged. What…
I like to think I’m an optimist. The power of positive thinking and all that. If I keep pedalling, something good will happen. Right now, though? Whoa! Things have been worse in the UK, but the headlines are alarming. Even accepting the journalistic preference for bad…
A certain amount of scepticism is no bad thing, healthy even. But when this tips over into cynicism or outright distrust then relationships, the workplace and society overall suffer. What we have witnessed in recent times is a breakdown in trust among great swathes of the…
This year’s Glastonbury Festival was closed by rapper Kendrick Lamar with a powerfully theatrical plea for women’s rights. He was reacting to what had happened two days earlier, on 24th June, when the US Supreme Court overturned its 1973 judgment, in Roe v. Wade, enshrining the…
Bigfoot is owned and run by Paul Tredwell. Since 2004 I have been an independent communications consultant, delivering a wide range of projects but with a focus on and passion for relationship optimisation.
