Category: Career
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Vote early, vote twice
Whereas A, I sensed, wanted to expand, to run a large department. To build an empire, to be The Man.
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The umbrella
It seemed Deloitte Haskins + Sells could no longer overlook my technical differences with, er, the examiners…
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Votes for Members
Imagine what the press would make of such behaviour in a trade union strike ballot.
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1996 and 1997: How Merrill Lynch ruined them
Merrill Lynch, the “thundering herd”, had turned its mighty power on to my cosy little domain…
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The Excellent Trap
…there had been no career plan, just trial and error, opportunistic – sometimes desperate – leaps from rock to rock.
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The Laboratory in Chestnut Avenue
I learned, perhaps, that the smartest business plan will fail if it upsets customers.
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