2016

I regularly find myself justifying autonomous cars in idle conversation. Often, my defence of the robots leads to an accusation that I don’t love driving, or that I’m trying to invent Skynet. Nothing could be further from the truth. I really love driving*. One of the most popular watercooler discussions of the moment is the

Also posted on LinkedIn if you’d like to get in touch or comment I have recently made the hardest decision of my career. On March 1st, I resigned from a job that I love, at a company that I’ve helped to build for the last eighteen years. Building up to that nearly impossible decision has

I recently wrote an article posting some analysis of the (awful) gender disparity demonstrated by the number of women entering STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) degree courses, and particularly Computer Science (14% in 2015). I also noted a similarity between that number and the percentage of women being celebrated in the CIO 100 last

Back in July 2014, I posted a visualisation of university place acceptances by gender and subject. Back then, there were terrible imbalances in the usual STEM disciplines (too many men, too few women), but a correlating imbalance in nursing, languages and education (too many women, too few men). I thought it would be worth running the

At reed.co.uk, we’ve been 64%* agile for many years. We’ve watched others, tried things ourselves, failed and picked ourselves up again. One of the most recent additions to our internal vernacular is that of ‘Bubble Squads’, or cross-cutting teams that quickly form around particular objectives, achieve their goals and burst, releasing their team members back

“Two boys is half a boy, and three boys is no boys at all” Team size is such a significant driver of the structure and so much research in organisational behaviour, sociology and psychology has been conducted that it rapidly demanded its own post. Here, then, is that post. Jeff Bezos, of the Amazon, is