Caddying
Watching the Golf Opens I found myself contemplating the role of a Caddy and what there role would be in a business environment. i.e....
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- Jul 11, 2014
- 3 min
True Brand Ambassadors
A magazine recently interviewed me about one of my books: Touching The Heart of Milton Keynes. On the face of it, they could have been...
- May 23, 2014
- 4 min
Bringing Back Our Girls
A few weeks back I was speaking at a conference in Denmark. I asked the audience whether anyone had heard about the girls that were...
- May 22, 2014
- 1 min
Shared Organisation AND Employee Values
An organisation has a Customer Charter that specifies that it has an excellent reputation for trading honestly, maintaining their...
- Mar 18, 2014
- 3 min
Skills, Systems and Attitude
I met Ben at a networking event as he spoke of about his products, I thought they would be perfect for a business event that I was going...
- Feb 10, 2014
- 2 min
Unconsciously Biasing Children
I recently found myself watching the “Doll test” An experiment where children, black and white are shown two different dolls at the same...
- Dec 24, 2013
- 2 min
A Visit to Marks & Spencer
I’ve just got come from a shopping trip to Marks & Spencer and I must say that I’m pleased to have learnt before I left that they will...
- Dec 21, 2013
- 3 min
Food Banks
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, make our earth an Eden, like the heaven above. Little Drops of Water by Julia Carney,...
- Dec 2, 2013
- 2 min
Engaged People Don’t Need Carrying
I spoke to someone recently who expressed the frustration of having to carry people on projects that she was running. An Expert – she...
- Nov 30, 2013
- 1 min
Trees With No Fruit
Yesterday I was at an Arts Exhibitions on Trees. It’s interesting to view all the art work and observe that none of the representations...
- Nov 24, 2013
- 1 min
Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really Want
I recently saw an advert on twitter for a Sales and Marketing Manager. It specified, “Sales and Marketing Manager, ideally a return to...
- Nov 14, 2013
- 1 min
Where’s Your Poppy?
I have a poppy, which I choose to wear and I wear it with great pride. It actually looks just like this one worn by young Nicholas on...
- Nov 6, 2013
- 2 min
Peter Principle
According to the Peter Principle, People are promoted to their level of Incompetency and sadly I can’t count the number of times that I...
- Oct 27, 2013
- 3 min
What’s the bottom line?
I got rather annoyed when I spoke to a friend about a situation with an organisation and he responded – “all organisations think about...
- Oct 26, 2013
- 3 min
Hello Possums!
Hello Possums. I hope you don’t mind me calling you little animals that look a bit like squirrels. After all Dame Edna does and people...
- Sep 26, 2013
- 3 min
The Value In and Of Us All
Darrell is autistic. I didn’t realise it at first – I just knew that he was rather abrupt and spoke loudly. Whilst I must be honest and...
- Sep 8, 2013
- 3 min
Greatest Influencers: With Thanks to The Dinner Lady
When people talk about influential people they often talk about people such as Mandela, Celebrities of some kind or business leaders....
- Sep 3, 2013
- 3 min
Racing
My challenge to you is simple – dare to dream…. If you follow that dream, who knows where you will end. Sir Robin Know-Johnston As the...