Last Friday I sat enjoying my breakfast at a networking event in the company of a charming lady who runs a chain of newspapers. I listened with interest as she told me that all of her managers were aged between 27 and 35, and had never worked under tough market conditions. They have almost no awareness of the last recession that many of us remember so clearly, and have never needed to develop the time-critical style of management required to ‘catch the worm’ in times of drought.

As a result of this conversation, I have begun to put together a programme for leading and managing in difficult markets. If this is an interesting topic to you right now, please drop me a line, I would love to discuss it further…