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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…
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…
communicating in a crisis
As I write this the world is waiting for news of Malaysian Airways flight 370 and my thoughts are with the families and friends of those missing for there can be little hope now of finding survivors. I’ll not waste time speculating on the cause of this loss, but instead look at the issue of communication in crisis management. Read more…
what’s in a name?
A recent high profile re-brand has caused a bit of a flutter in the industry concerned, so with people talking about it, it must have worked, yes? Read more…
good people will always lift your spirits
Telephone calls during the evening are rarely good news; even though it is a while since I was last on a call out list any call after about six in the evening is usually either trouble or some poor soul trying to earn a crust making cold calls. Read more…
whether we like it ot not, weather will happen
It is back to reality today after a couple of weeks indulging my imagination in providing some holiday humour. I have been asked if my lift party made it back safely. Time will tell and I’ll see how I feel come Easter; perhaps another adventure will beckon? But it is back to reality and for many it is a grim one. Read more…
How many FM companies employ an FM?
It might sound like a daft question, but a couple of things this week have raised this issue and got me thinking about the issue. Read more…
Trick or treat? Some skeletons from the closet…
Keeping up my Halloween tradition of talking about things that went bump in the night, here are a few more oops moments that I learned from. Maybe they will help you avoid similar mistakes. Read more…
midweek musings on Edinburgh
It is hard to believe that two weeks have passed since I paced my Murrayfield hotel room rehearsing my presentation for the next day at the BIFM Scotland region conference. With four runs through the session coming out at 25 or 26 minutes I was comfortable that I had it down pat and was ready for a good sleep. This evening I am in another capital city hotel room and an ocean away from Scotland, but I’ve just been sharing experiences of public speaking with a guy who has gone off to his room to rehearse his slot at a sales conference tomorrow. I wish him well. Read more…
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