“Weather – Changeable” – A whole new meaning

It was a nice enough morning as I recall. The sun was shining and the journey to head office was an easy ride for once. I was meeting my Director in NTL to review the plans for redundancies, and  I was “under threat”. The formal meeting went well, the regrets were expressed that all present…

  Have you heard about Twitter, or do you use it? I must admit that when I first saw it I thought it was an even dafter idea than many others that I’d seen on the web.  Then a good friend advised me to stick with it and I did. And now: well I think…

Stephen Fry tells a great tale about the difference between English and American by using the phrase “Only in America”. There it implies inspirational activity and comes with a fair polish of pride. On the other hand “only in Britain” seems to me to have a pretty negative meaning. You can almost hear the body…

Great hype yesterday that the opium crop production was down 30% in Afghanistan this year (the spinners has spun out the fact that it is still higher than it was 5 years ago). The implicit link was that our military efforts are stopping the production of drugs, reducing the income to the Taleban and therefore…

When I ran a national team of sales and operations staff I had close to 300 men and women dotted around the country. They were all doing pretty much the same thing, but each had their own job description and reward structure. They also had all the tools needed to do the job and if…