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I'm an award-winning journalist, writer and public speaker.

My next book is Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand (Profile, November 2026), which tells the 2,000 year story of the workplace technology used by spies, statesmen, suffragettes and secretaries. I still write shorthand - though not at the 130 words per minute speed I once boasted.

My book Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World (Pallas Athene, 2019) is a personal exploration of the life, work and influence of the Victorian polymath, which was awarded The Ruskin Society Book Prize in 2020.

I also take a deep interest in how organisations are run and led - and how they'll be run and led in the future. My book Leadership in the Headlines (2016) is a collection of some of my Fin ...more

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