I love Jessica Chastain in the movie Miss Sloane where, as a lobbyist, she deals with political bullies using the philosophy “Lobbying is about foresight. About anticipating your opponent’s moves and devising countermeasures. …

You can measure employee productivity with the labour productivity equation: total output / total input. DEI aims to maximise this by engaging all available resources appropriately. Labor productivity is primarily driven by investment in capital, technological progress, and human capital development. Labor productivity measures output per labor hour — for…

Sometimes you have to keep your clothes on to get closer than skin.

In the movie Jerry Maguire Cuba Gooding Jr. acts like every CFO I have known when he screams “Show me the money” over and over again at Tom Cruise. It works …eventually. I have always worked to build high-performing teams. The support of what is now called the Chief People…

Communication requires understanding in every language. — TELL ME ABOUT LOVE I love you openly But you cannot see this Because you are looking In the wrong direction Just turn around now And you will see. I love you quietly But you cannot hear this Because you are listening In the deafness of silence Listen for our love now And you will hear…

A poem was written listening to the sounds of Seattle as we prepared our annual budget. — MY NEOLOGISTIC BUDGET DAY… Oatmealed and omeletted, start to a dull grey Seattle day Mutual “Good morning” yawns wait the elevator gruzz Cheery maid vacumates my room in a swirl of efficiency Brundling my notes and my PC together I walk to work Strumphing along beside the fumes of the grundling traffic Email mountains…

The BBC TV series Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy became a cult classic in 1981. Better than the subsequent movie because it was so primitive and as the Guide said about Earth “Mostly Harmless”. This quaint view that supercomputers would answer the ultimate question of life the universe and everything…

The movie “Blinded by the Light” uses the words of “The Boss” to inspire the Pakistani protagonists to escape from the crushing racism and economic wasteland of Luton in Thatcher’s Britain of the 1980s. The words of The Promised Land drive the boy to become a man who believes there…

My mother died of Lewy Body Dementia in 2012 and my father of pancreatic cancer in 1990… always remembered on days like this. MOTHER A nurse’s care replaces impossible independence, Too short heaven in a “delighted to see you” smile, A lifetime of living remnants in a fragmented mind- The woman becomes a child…