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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 33: Moving to employee ownership

1 June 2023

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Have you ever stopped to think about the ownership structure of your company, and what it means?聽 For Sandberg,...

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Director’s Cut, take 32: Annual reports and the art of selling your story

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 32: Annual reports and the art ...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 32: Annual reports and the art ...

24 February 2023

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Few financial statements have a broader audience than a company鈥檚 annual report. Not only does it summarise th...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through content

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 31: Creating confidence through...

12 January 2022

Anu Carnegie-Brown

For quite some time, I鈥檝e been wishing that we had a more inspiring mission statement. A mission statement tha...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 30: Growing up 鈥 which stage are you at?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 30: Growing up 鈥 which stage ar...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 30: Growing up 鈥 which stage ar...

3 September 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

How does an SME grow from an owner-managed one-man business to a globally impactful player? I don鈥檛 mean the g...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 29: Made to measure

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 29: Made to measure

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 29: Made to measure

2 June 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

When I was younger, I had the same vital statistics as Marilyn Monroe. However, whilst my chest, waist and hips ...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 28: Speaking of which

31 March 2021

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I recently missed the start of a live online talk I鈥檇 agreed to give. It was due to a misunderstanding about t...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 27: Home for Christmas

15 December 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Those three little words, 鈥榟ome for Christmas鈥, have been on my mind recently. They鈥檝e featured high on my...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 26: Going from good to great with mentoring

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 26: Going from good to great wi...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 26: Going from good to great wi...

22 October 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

鈥淒o you have a few minutes so I could run something by you?鈥 These words come out of my mouth quite frequent...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 25: Who鈥檚 on board?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 25: Who鈥檚 on board?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 25: Who鈥檚 on board?

5 August 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Last night, I found myself on a sinking ship. It was only a tender, the size of a large rowing boat, and we were...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 24: Through the looking glass

24 June 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

In the 1871 sequel to Lewis Carroll鈥檚 renowned first novel, Alice crosses back into the Wonderland, this time ...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 23: All in the same basket

7 April 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

The egg is an emblem of unhatched potential. The global COVID-19 crisis may have left us shellshocked, cracked, ...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 22: The future isn鈥檛 what it used to be

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 22: The future isn鈥檛 what it us...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 22: The future isn鈥檛 what it us...

9 January 2020

Anu Carnegie-Brown

It鈥檚 a new year and (arguably) a new decade; the time for experts to demonstrate their expertise by foretellin...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 21: What鈥檚 value worth?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 21: What鈥檚 value worth?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 21: What鈥檚 value worth?

19 November 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

The pressure is on. Five hundred pairs of eyes are fixed on me, some expectantly, others critically. I have no i...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 20: Thoughts on the loo

9 October 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

How long does it take to teach someone to use the loo? For some, learning this fundamental part of life apparent...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 19: What goes in, comes out

5 July 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Business tends to be more interested in output than input. Clients rarely ask how you put together the service y...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the World鈥檚 Largest LSPs Index 2019)

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the Wor...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 18: See who made it (to the Wor...

29 May 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

History is written by the victors. I pondered this much debated quote when studying the latest language services...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 17: Conducting business after Brexit

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 17: Conducting business after B...

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 17: Conducting business after B...

12 February 2019

Anu Carnegie-Brown

While the political Brexit cauldron keeps churning, seething and frothing, UK businesses of every size and in ev...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 16: The fun in fundraising

4 December 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I have a British colleague who joined STP in May 2018. After six months at the company, this experienced HR prof...

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Director’s Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 15: English Version 2.0

12 November 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

English is currently the world鈥檚 most commonly taught foreign language, and it is so widely spoken that it is ...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 14: Selfie

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 14: Selfie

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 14: Selfie

19 September 2018

Anu Carnegie-Brown

You have worked long and hard to build a solid reputation. You are not worried about what people say when you le...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 13: Give and take

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 13: Give and take

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 13: Give and take

28 September 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Voluntary engagement in the affairs of your industry is a matter of give and take. In fact, the giving and takin...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 12: And then there were fewer

14 September 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Another month, another acquisition. Private equity investors have deemed the highly-fragmented language market t...

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Director’s Cut, take 11: The curtain

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 11: The curtain

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 11: The curtain

6 July 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

鈥業t鈥檚 always been a dream of mine to have done a TED talk 鈥 in the past.鈥 Tim Urban made me smile with t...

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Director’s Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 10: Birds of a feather

1 June 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

When you hear the words 鈥榩eer support,鈥 an organisation like Alcoholics Anonymous may well be the first thin...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 9: Image conscious

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 9: Image conscious

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 9: Image conscious

4 May 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

There鈥檚 an old joke you may know about Finnish people. A Frenchman, an American and a Finn are walking in the ...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 8: Passing on good advice

6 April 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I recently came across this website where, to celebrate International Women鈥檚 Day, business leaders wrote lett...

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Director’s Cut, take 7: Virtually there

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 7: Virtually there

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 7: Virtually there

2 March 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Your technology facilitates it, your people appreciate it, your type of work can sustain it. Yet how do you turn...

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Director’s Cut, take 6: University challenges

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 6: University challenges

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 6: University challenges

1 February 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I like visiting universities. Hip students stroll the corridors talking about alien things in alien ways. Time s...

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Director’s Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 5: Working with wise (wo)men

5 January 2017

Anu Carnegie-Brown

It鈥檚 around now 鈥 on Twelfth Night, or Epiphany 鈥 that many Christians celebrate the wise men arriving at ...

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Director’s Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 4: To have and to hold on to

15 December 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Most managers think that employees quit for pay-related reasons. There is research that supports this view, but ...

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Director’s Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 3: Iznogoud

2 November 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

鈥淚 want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph鈥 was the motto of Iznogoud, the wicked, scheming grand vizier of ...

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Director’s Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 2: Guilty or not guilty?

7 October 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

Do you ever feel disillusioned when you read advice on burnout prevention, stress management and work-life balan...

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Director鈥檚 Cut, take 1: Ik盲n盲k枚ala

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 1: Ik盲n盲k枚ala

Director鈥檚 Cut, take 1: Ik盲n盲k枚ala

8 September 2016

Anu Carnegie-Brown

I turned 50 this summer. And since it has taken me half a century to get blogging, I feel compelled to explain t...

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