The Diversity Blog – SaaS, Cloud & Business Strategy

I have to admit that I am a political junkie. I am really looking forward to the seventh of November and spending the entire evening glued to a TV or computer screen, following election results. My own political views wander all over the place, and I’ve voted across the political spectrum. But the process itself is incredibly interesting to me. So I was fascinated to read an ...

I’m lucky enough to sit at governance tables across infrastructure, technology, health, insurance and manufacturing. Economics, business models and balances of power are moving at once. After a couple of years playing with emerging technology and sitting around tables with people smarter than me, wondering what “good” might look like for this small, isolated, hydro-rich piece...

I started my working life as an electrician. Too lazy to pursue my original plan of becoming a doctor, I took the easier route: dropped out of school and did an electrical apprenticeship instead. One of my early managers, reflecting on my prospects, was fond of telling me:

“Ben, you won’t make an electrician’s ar$%hole. Oh wait, you will make an electrician’s ar$%hole...

I spend a fair bit of time these days wondering when I’ll stop being useful on the boards I sit on. Not in a morbid way, more as a discipline. It’s the same question worth asking in any job, any career, any relationship, really: am I still pulling my weight here, or just occupying the chair out of habit?

Two things have got me thinking about this lately. One is the old...