ChristineM Armstrong 04/06/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 04/06/2021

WFH: Not so flexible after all

Will hybrid work actually demand more leadership control?

The question was raised in an article in the Harvard Business Review, by Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University, based on surveying 30,000 American employees.

ChristineM Armstrong 28/05/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 28/05/2021

The new digital etiquette we’re all being judged on

According to The Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, we misinterpret the tone of half of the emails we receive. Yep, for one in every two messages, we are totally missing the vibe. No wonder everyone is feeling a touch paranoid.

ChristineM Armstrong 21/05/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 21/05/2021

When you SHOULD work for free

I’m often confronted with the question: when is it a good idea to work for free?

There’s a LOT of heat online about why you should not work unpaid. Especially women. Especially if offered ‘exposure’ in return. (Scroll through ForExposure’s feed on Twitter for shocking stories of why people should invest their skills in projects with zero budgets.) Makes total sense, right?

ChristineM Armstrong 14/05/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 14/05/2021

How we stop work from killing us

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week and the focus is on nature. Cue posts about going for another 🤬 walk in the park.

Research published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that premature aging and death were impacted by:

- battling industry downturns

- the threat of takeovers

- …and pandemics too?

(Based on 1,605 company bosses at large publicly listed US firms over the last 50 years)

ChristineM Armstrong 07/05/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 07/05/2021

The most powerful leadership advice I was ever given

15 years ago the ad agency I was working at, BBDO, flew a bunch of us to LA to talk strategy for three days in a cavernous hotel. My main memory is of escaping a formal dinner for a bar crawl in stretch limos.

ChristineM Armstrong 30/04/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 30/04/2021

What makes YOU prone to burn out?

One Monday morning in an agency, a colleague came into my office, slumped, and cried.

And cried.

He’d been working for weeks—and all weekend—for a difficult client. He was, I now know, burnt out: suffering a collapse of physical and emotional energy. I should have seen the signs and intervened much earlier.

ChristineM Armstrong 23/04/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 23/04/2021

What Gen Z thinks of you

Gen Z, aka the Zoomers, were (disputably) born between 1997 and 2012. So they’re currently under 25—and shockingly—include my oldest child. The younger two are Alphas (tell me something I didn’t know).

ChristineM Armstrong 16/04/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 16/04/2021

Staying sane(ish) through the great unlock: 5 tips

I went into this thing looking like a woman who hosts parties. I was snapped on Sunday looking like a dognapper who eats from skips.

ChristineM Armstrong 26/03/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 26/03/2021

One year on: can we bounce back better?

Exactly a year into this vlog, it’s happening—the great (slow) unlock. Three thoughts for you:

ChristineM Armstrong 19/03/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 19/03/2021

Age: the last bastion of discrimination?

ChristineM Armstrong 12/03/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 12/03/2021

What #IWD isn't about

I struggled with #IWD this year. Obviously not the bits about celebrating great women or schools going back—oh no, they were ace…

ChristineM Armstrong 05/03/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 05/03/2021

Are we going back to Mad Men?

ChristineM Armstrong 26/02/2021 ChristineM Armstrong 26/02/2021

Looking better than everyone else on Zoom?

Well here we are, a year into this crisis, and yet we still have a lot of people—obviously not you dear reader, but your colleagues—with shocking Zoom set ups.