make a choice and get off the fence; it isn’t that comfortable up there
One of my regular topics here, but rightly so for being able to make a decision, even a poor one, is beyond so many people and seems to be a greater problem when collective thinking is involved as in the case of an organisation’s management. Read more…
“It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit”
These words are attributed to Harry S Truman, the 33rd President of the United States of America and there is an obvious logic to them. Read more…
to plan or not to plan
“We need a plan” is a fairly obvious statement before you start any endeavour and with a decent plan in place there is little excuse for not succeeding; “I love it when a plan comes together” I think Hannibal Smith used to say in each A Team episode, but what about when a plan goes off the rails, or if you don’t have a plan? Read more…
holiday humour, with a Facilities Manager’s blues
This week’s holiday humour comes in the form of a song. Bob Dylan’s Stuck Inside of Mobile (with the Memphis blues again) comes from the 1966 album Blonde on Blonde and has long been a favourite. I used to play it in the car a lot on long trips; the lines “and here I sit so patiently, waiting to find out what price, you to pay to get out of, going through all these things twice” had a lot of meaning after those boring all day meetings and I would sometimes make up topical verses to sing along to. Read more…
the importance of understanding money
I wrote in one of my books about probably the best piece of business advice that I ever had came not in a work context, but from the father of a young lady who I was about to take out on a date. Read more…
Hillary, Rodney and Neville; an eternal triangle? more holiday humour from the #MondayMusings column
RADIO SCRIPT
(Dialogue: All with clipped tones, very stiff upper lip British middle class. An overacted Brief Encounter style)
(Background: Faint sounds of an office with occasional telephones ringing and bursts of typewriter noise)
(A door opens) Read more…
spoof posts and humour on public holiday Mondays
When I started writing the Monday Musing as a spoof or humorous post on public holiday Mondays I was myself following in others footsteps, for such writing is a long tradition and I often write such posts in the style of others; Read more…
leadership is also about creating the right space
Since I got back from my recent intercontinental travels I have been writing a lot about how things used to be for certain aspects of the places I have been to are in sharp contrast to the way things are here in the UK in 2014. Read more…
holiday humour for Easter in the dime novel style
The silence stretched between them and her patience was near to snapping; why could he not just say something? It had been almost three hours now since she had unleashed a torrent of venom in his direction and it had taken most of that time before she began to accept that she had been wrong to react in the way that she had. Hell, he was just a man and she had known enough of them to know what to expect when you criticised them; sulking and silence. Read more…
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