The 5 stages of de-stressing at work
Published: Thu, 03/26/26
Based on how it looks to me, anyway. But after 13+ years of taking grenades in the trenches at my banking job, then finding a way to turn down my…
Following Fulfilment
The Corporate Ostrich
Published: Wed, 03/25/26
Here’s something to chew on if there’s a task you keep putting off at work: At 3pm last Friday (a mere two hours before the deadline), I submitted the…
Why I risk your boss’s wrath every time I send a daily email
Published: Tue, 03/24/26
A reader drops me a line about the Zen-like tips I shared yesterday for not losing sleep over your inbo : (keeping her anon as requested) ***Hi Tom -…
Zen and the art of ignoring all your emails
Published: Mon, 03/23/26
What’s this? An email about emails? The irony isn’t lost on me. But if your inbo is always running the show and you’d like to get on top of it, this…
Legendary tennis coach unearths the real key to peak performance
Published: Fri, 03/20/26
A few months ago, I ran a Subtraction Method workshop for NYT bestseller Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s online community. During the workshop, I spoke about…
To anyone having kittens about an impossible deadline today
Published: Wed, 03/18/26
If you’re dreading a huge deadline as you tootle into the office today, know this: You already know how you’ll hit that deadline. Sure, you might not…
My newsletter incites a workplace rebellion?
Published: Tue, 03/17/26
A few weeks ago, I asked readers to send me some words to describe my daily emails. Various words filtered back into my hungry inbo . Words like…
Let it rip
Published: Mon, 03/16/26
A few weeks ago, I dropped author and podcaster Paul Millerd a message on WhatsApp. I wanted to check if Paul was okay with me including my 2025…
How to spot the invisible rules running your career
Published: Thu, 03/12/26
Baby Grundy has got into a strange food-related habit recently. Whenever we serve her a bowl of porridge straight from the stove or hand her a freshly…
Maverick's career advice
Published: Wed, 03/11/26
On Sunday night, Lauren and I settled on the sofa with a glass of whisky and fired up the rip-roaring movie Top Gun: Maverick. If you haven't seen it,…