Why I defend Bill Michael, no matter his privilege

Written for Linkedin: view the original here.

 

Bill Michael, the outgoing UK chair of KPMG, is probably not someone who many people would feel inspired to defend. He has quit his role after comments he made criticising staff for moaning about the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic, and for a blistering attack on Unconscious Bias Training.

It's an awkward truth, but white people are doing best out of the fight against white privilege

The increasingly bitter racial tensions of our times exploded again at the beginning of the week, when the BBC thought it wise to give a platform to 2 idiotic white women to pontificate on how other white women could not be ‘karens.’

Adding Pronouns In Communication: what it is and why I don't do it

    

Written for LinkedIn: view the original here.

 The trend of adding preferred pronouns to one’s name in communications seems to be growing. At the moment, it hasn’t exploded, so you may well not know what on earth I’m talking about. But don’t be surprised if you come across it eventually. Perhaps a LinkedIn connection will have done it, or you’ll spot it in an email signature. Mine would be Aidan Kiely (he/his/him).

Why I'm not buying in to 'Brand Positivity'

What is Facebook’s most important question when hiring candidates? Here is the answer. The most important question is this: “On your very best day at work – the day you come home and think you have the best job in the world – what did you do that day?”
As million dollar questions go, you would be forgiven for hoping the sentence construction was a little more graceful, but the lack of elegance is far from the most sinister feature of such a question.