Recent Blogs.- LETTING OFF STEAM November 30, 2020I keep on hearing people talking about their ‘mental health’ as though it were a badly behaved pet puppy or, perhaps, a bit like the daemons in Philip Pullman’s novels. To be sure we have probably all found the lockdown and the past year rather stressful but a bit of stiff upper lip and pulling […]
- TECHNOLOGY HASN'T CHANGED OUR LIVES November 23, 2020New technology hasn’t fundamentally changed golf, cricket or football. Although in football, VAR (video-assistant-referees) has been so contentious we may go back to old on-the-field referees’ judgement. But there are very few who’d agree with me on this luddite thinking. On Friday I was working in my office whilst my wife was taking exercise – I avoided […]
- BEING CRAZY CAN HELP November 16, 2020Ricardo is a name I’m often called by friends and the name I use in Venice (Venetians find Richard Hall – ‘Risher Hore’ – an unpalatable mouthful). Ricardo is a good name. I like it. So does Ricardo Semler – founder of Semco the Brazilian conglomerate – who was on TED Talks recently and was once […]
- "I'M OUT!" November 9, 2020Dragon’s Den and The Bidding Room are TV programmes where these words are heard. People who displease their peers are “ghosted” or “cancelled”. Rejection is sadly part of our culture now.Still, it was a surprise when a friend who’s always been engaged in events and current thinking sent an e-mail saying he’d had enough … […]
- PLAYING DARTS IN THE DARK November 2, 2020I’ve been hearing a Beatles refrain in my head – slightly revised:-Here comes the lockdown, woo ah woo ahHere comes some gloom, and I sayIt's all rightLittle lockdown, it's been a long cold lonely autumnLittle lockdown, it feels like years since you’ve been here …No surprise of course. A bit like being in denial about […]
- LETTING OFF STEAM November 30, 2020