How the room reads you, before you walk in.

One sharp idea a week for senior leaders: how careers get decided in the rooms you're not in, and how to change what the room reads. Twenty years inside HR, unedited. Watch the film or read every word.

02 For twenty years I sat in the rooms where your career was decided. Read → 03 Well placed sounds like a compliment. It's a parking spot. Read → 04 For twenty years as a recruiter, I never searched your name. Read → 05 I stopped at the first dull line. Everyone reading you still does. Read → 06 Solid never makes the succession slide. Read → 07 Ten out of ten doesn't speak for itself. You do. Read →