Every organisation has one. The person who just gets it done. They reply quickly, they remember the thing from the meeting three weeks ago, they pick up what falls between the cracks and they never make a fuss about it. Managers love this person. Colleagues love this person. Frankly, the whole team would struggle to function without this person. Which is exactly why I'd be a little worried about them. One woman that comes to my mind as I write this blog was an operations mana

There is absolutely nothing wrong with yoga. I feel I should establish that fairly early, before somebody from HR sends me a strongly worded email. Yoga can be wonderful. So can mindfulness, exercise, breathwork, lunchtime walks, resilience training, EAP support, coaching and occasionally remembering to eat something that didn’t come out of a vending machine between meetings. The problem starts when these things are offered as the answer to a problem they were never designed

You get the job. The promotion. The qualification. Someone tells you that you did something brilliantly. For about twelve seconds, you feel pleased. Then another voice appears. They’ve overestimated me.I got lucky.Someone else would have done this better.Eventually they’re going to realise I’m not actually as good as they think I am. Meanwhile, there may be quite a lot of evidence suggesting that you do, in fact, know what you’re doing. Qualifications. Experience. Positive fe