Not much has changed since Malvina Reynolds, songwriter and political activist, wrote this song in 1962. Instead of just the boys becoming professionals, now both sexes do, but education and work still by and large put us in little boxes and expect us to be all the same.

All we want to say is thank you Dave and in terms of improvisation - 'Ditto!'

I recently asked an HR development director at a leading UK insurance provider:

“Just curious - what seems to be keeping managers awake at night in your industry? What are you noticing as the biggest challenges people are struggling with?”

And he wrote back:

“Doing more with less (and not doing it yourself and working longer hours)

1.    Panic (it’s going to happen anyway, you might as well get it over with early).  Text your facilitator friends who are great at charades, tweet your plight, and if nothing emerges, proceed to step 2.