Category Archives: Business stories

Swedish angels

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

Something extraordinary happens on Dark Angels courses. People who don’t even think of themselves as writers discover that the simplest of words have a power to connect beyond their wildest imaginings. And the connections they make are not only with … Continue reading →

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Olympic virtues

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

On Radio 4 recently, Clifford Longley, the BBC’s religious affairs correspondent, quoted Bob Diamond’s notorious comment that business culture was ‘how people behave when no one’s watching’. Longley went on to draw the distinction between the self-interest that governs so … Continue reading →

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Anecdotally speaking

Posted on March 2, 2012 by Jamie Jauncey

There’s a small agency in Melbourne, Australia called Anecdote. They use stories and storytelling to help businesses change and adapt, develop their strategies and undertake other manoeuvres that call for some plumbing of the corporate psyche. I met one of … Continue reading →

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The rabble

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

There was a time when I imagined that in my sixties life would have started to become a pleasant, carefree stroll through the sunlit uplands. Ah well … This is what has been competing for space in my head this … Continue reading →

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A small rebellion

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

The ripples from our last Dark Angels course continue to spread. Two weeks after leaving Inverness-shire, the glue that binds the group together seems to be setting firmer rather than weakening, as is more often the case. Our inboxes bulge … Continue reading →

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Autumn tales

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

I often write this on the train on the way back from Edinburgh. It’s a picturesque journey, across the Forth Bridge and east along the Fife coast, then inland through the soft, fertile farmland of central Fife, a short climb … Continue reading →

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My friend the visionary

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Jamie Jauncey

Almost exactly forty years ago to this day I started my first job in London. Improbable as it seems now, it was as an articled clerk with one of the big London-Scottish firms of accountants. I’ve written about this in … Continue reading →

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Temples of Mammon

Posted on November 19, 2010 by Jamie Jauncey

Thirty-nine years plus a few weeks ago I started my first job. Incredible though it now seems, it was in the City. I had graduated with a law degree from Aberdeen University but wanted neither to practice law nor to … Continue reading →

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