Obese Britannia
With our love of junk food of both the fish-and-chips and McDonald’s varieties and our loathing of exercise, and despite our best intents, we in Britain are slip-sliding our way to Obese Britannia....
View ArticleCredit crunch and public health
It is no longer a case of the banks and the bankers, although popular media headlines will still have you believe that the crunch was purely of the banks’ making and somehow they should pay for it. It...
View ArticleHealthcare Services Outsourcing to India?
This post emerged from a question asked by a friend on LinkedIn. The question was: Are (sic) Healthcare services outsourcing from India the next big opportunity? Health-insurance companies based out of...
View ArticleWhose data are they anyway?
What a difference two days make! First, T-Mobile in the UK informed the Information Commissioner’s Office that some of its own rogue employees had sold on the firm’s contract customer data to third...
View ArticleFour for Friday (15)
This week’s eclectic, interesting reads: The hall of shame? A list of VCs with no female investing partners. One step closer to Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind? The forgetting pill. The case for...
View ArticleWork and isolation
On the same day that I saw a journalist in London seeking to speak with people about workplace isolation, a friend in California noted that she wanted to have a little social but found that her real...
View ArticleOn Founder wellness
This article is the twentieth in the Startup Series on FirstPost’s Tech2 section and first appeared on August the 6th, 2017. In the very first column in this series, I wrote about the loneliness of...
View ArticleOn our collective wellbeing
Celebrity suicides foster chatter but in my mind, with an awareness of suicide contagion, there is concern as I look around at my own friends and colleagues. Which among my own set is about to act...
View ArticleGrief, mental wellbeing and the workplace
Employers need to be proactive about addressing the challenges of grief, bereavement and trauma faced by employees.
View ArticleGovernance in emergencies
Governance models while necessary are insufficient consideration in the face of emergencies; the organisation (or a nation) fundamentally need to have competence, resources, and skills, built in peace...
View ArticleCovid19 and remaking society
Covid19 is going to remake our society whether we like it or not. It is not sufficient to dislike what may be already underway.
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