Dear Ken Cheng: How Do You Negotiate Payments With Freelancers?

Our resident corporate Agony Uncle, CEO Ken Cheng, tackles business challenges – so you don’t have to. Dear Ken Cheng, I’m bad at negotiating with freelancers on how much to […]
Dear Ken Cheng: My Employee Is Using A Chatbot To Reply To Me…

Dear Ken, I discovered one of my employees is using a chatbot to reply to my e-mails and messages. Is there anything I can do about it? – Rachel, Sunderland […]
Why Your Marketing Transformation Budget Isn’t Building Anything Permanent

Here’s an uncomfortable pattern: most marketing transformation investments depreciate the moment the project team moves on. The agency engagement ends. The interim CMO leaves. The centre of excellence gets reorganised. […]
Dear Ken Cheng: How Do I Flirt Over LinkedIn?

Our resident corporate Agony Uncle, CEO Ken Cheng, tackles business challenges – so you don’t have to. Dear Ken Cheng, How do I flirt over LinkedIn? – James, Redhill Ken […]
Dear Ken Cheng: How Did You Set Up Your First Company?

Our resident corporate Agony Uncle, CEO Ken Cheng, tackles business challenges – so you don’t have to. Dear Ken Cheng, You’ve clearly set up many successful companies. But how did […]
Shaping The Future: 1 Day Summit 19 March 2026

It’s not “The New Normal” it’s “The Never Normal” For keynotes with Q+A, our Little Grey cells 1 Day Summit at Regent’s University, Central London, has gathered together some of the […]
Most Change Programmes Have A Shelf Life. We Just Don’t Talk About It.

Long term support and advisory board member of Little Grey cells Club, Cecilia Weckstrom’s latest paper on Substack tackles ‘change implementation’ – how most transformation programmes erode because they rely […]
Dear Ken Cheng: You write great hooks for LinkedIn. How do you do it?

Our resident corporate Agony Uncle, CEO Ken Cheng, tackles business challenges – so you don’t have to. Dear Ken Cheng, You write great hooks for LinkedIn. How do you do […]
What Are You About To Say Yes To That You’ll Regret By March?

As the year kicked off I am sure your inbox and LinkedIn were overflowing with well meaning (but still grating!) advice from a plethora of coaches, experts and advisors? I […]
Life, Death, David Lynch, And The Problem With Reality

Ever shared an idea that you’re really excited about, only to have someone important pipe up with something like… “It’s a great idea. Really great!!! Fun. Very creative. The client […]