STYLE & STRATEGY HUB

Nothing on a photo shoot starts with the clothes. A brief arrives first. Someone has decided what the day is about, and every choice made after that point answers to it.

The same goes for a project, or the way you execute well on strategy. There’s a vision, a strategy, and then a plan, and you exec...

There is an outfit in your wardrobe that makes you feel completely like yourself. You have worn it three times.

It waits at the end of the rail for a room important enough to justify it. Everything else in your week runs on what is appropriate.

Leaders who have been promoted for their judgement te...

Most leaders can point to a moment when they noticed everyone in the room had arrived at the exact same read within minutes, and treated the speed of that agreement as proof it was correct, when more often it's evidence that nobody tested their own instinct before falling in line with everyone else'...

Most women in leadership can name the outfit they bought for their first serious job: the one that never quite looked right, the one they wore out of duty rather than choice. It usually gets filed away later as an early style mistake, when it was rarely that at all. It was the only material availabl...

Somewhere in your wardrobe there is a piece with the tags still on. Research suggests it has company: one survey found the average woman reports 21 per cent of her wardrobe as unwearable and has never removed the tags from 12 per cent of it. For a professional wardrobe of 150 to 200 pieces, that can...

There is a calculation that runs before an important room, and it does not appear in anyone's workload.

You are preparing for the board update, the client pitch or the keynote. You know the content, and you have known the content for weeks. What takes the extra bandwidth is everything sitting under...