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The next impressive email does not require paranoia. It requires a process. Start by verifying the sender independently rather than relying solely on the biography, links and logos supplied in the approach. Move towards clarifying exactly what is being proposed before surrendering an hour to a meeting. Evaluate the complete exchange of value, including your time, expertise, intellectual capital, reputation, content, introductions, audience and community access.

The woman who accepted responsibility for particular household tasks at 35 may be a director, partner, founder or CEO at 50. Children who once needed practical care may now be adults requiring different forms of support. Parents who were previously independent may need increasing assistance, businesses may have expanded and relationships may have changed, yet the original distribution of responsibility can remain remarkably resistant to renegotiation.

There is a particular kind of woman who can be awake at 3am, lead a difficult meeting at 9am and still convince everybody, including herself, that she is functioning perfectly well. She has spent decades becoming exceptionally good at carrying complexity. Career pressure, family responsibility, financial decisions, caring, deadlines and the invisible work of remembering what everybody else has forgotten have all been absorbed into a life that still appears remarkably well ma

Artificial intelligence is becoming remarkably good at producing things. It can research, analyse, draft, summarise and create in seconds what once took hours. But our latest EVOLVE: AI You Can Trust: Leading Responsibly Through Intelligent Transformation conversation with Sharon Gilkes Prior and Ade Shokoya raised a more interesting question. “If access to speed, information and competent-looking output becomes commonplace, what happens to the value of human expertise?”