Chris BarrowApr 16, 2017President Lannister and other despotsYou would think we know better in 2017. On one side of the world we have Kim Jong-un standing before the massed ranks of his army and...
Chris BarrowJan 2, 2017Ready, steady, go!For many of us, first proper day back at work tomorrow – the party being over. It occurred to me as a jogged through a frosty Dunham...
Chris BarrowDec 28, 2016Christmas week in The BunkerI’m a neat freak. This is possibly the quietest week of the working year and an opportunity to spend some time thinking, planning and...
Chris BarrowOct 15, 2016Working so hard that you forget how to restOctober has established itself as the busiest month in my working calendar (and, it seems, that of many of my friends and clients who run...
Chris BarrowAug 20, 2016SeriouslyYou all know how much I love my taxi-driver stories because they demonstrate the triumph of the human spirit, of love and endeavour over...
Chris BarrowAug 17, 2016Politics, Sport and PridePolitics I’m apolitical 99.999% of the time and rarely tempted to comment unless there is a life-changing event such as Brexit or the...
Chris BarrowJul 22, 2016The Frequency of DisruptionChange isn’t the challenge – the pace of change is the challenge. Disruption used to be recorded in geological eras, by reference to the...
Chris BarrowJul 21, 2016Contains Adult ThemesI have developed a natural aversion to country house hotels over the years, based on bitter experience. Arriving at the beautiful...
Chris BarrowJul 15, 2016Business, Digital and Tears – a Friday riffBusiness is good. Well, only 162 more shopping days to Christmas and Friday morning sees me on a 05:30 train to Sunderland (to work with...
Chris BarrowJul 4, 2016Resignation SpecialThe antimetabole: when the going gets tough, the tough get going (originally attributed to Joseph P Kennedy – JFK’s father) ….is intended...
Chris BarrowJan 10, 2016BrokenI’m sick of being broken and at risk of sounding like a whingeing hypochondriac. left knee has been inoperative since August. I can’t run...
Chris BarrowMay 24, 2015Welcome!For those of you interested in the concept of Perfect Imperfectionism (the freedom to be effective 80% of the time and a mess the other...