Trading on past career triumphs seems a little sad – unless they’re sporting triumphs

I’ve been encouraging bankers, lawyers and accountants to spend the rest of their careers in the classroom

Remind yourself how awful most business leaders are at speaking: the bar is low

Having time to spare makes you feel in control – and comes with moral high ground

Bragging about not toiling on holiday part of wider trend of shorter working hours

Barbed farewells insensitive to jobseekers but highlight where recruiters go wrong

The gap between expectation and reality is the biggest problem for 20-somethings

The 10 minutes I debated high heels on radio were the sanest I have had since the referendum

Do you really need a smart clothes peg to make your life a little easier?

Apple chief found to be most influential CEO on Twitter despite his just 40 tweets this year

In a group of 200 bankers I could see only one who seemed to be in their 50s – the CEO

Entry-level graduate jobs promise the world but deliver monotony and pointlessness

Beauty of being late adopter of social network is learning from others’ efforts – both good and bad

Meg Whitman’s lieutenant was ‘disappointed’ with what I’d written. Here is my response

The older generation loved a spoof email but millennials can’t afford to joke around

Here are some of 2015’s worst examples of the drivel spoken and written in business

Having reported on ‘industry’s onward march’ my father became a casualty of it

How about using honest, honourable terms for the people who work for your company?

It’s all guff, the same words crop up over and over again

Though you could always unload the dishwasher while you’re hanging on the line . . .