Recent Blogs.- MAKING THE BEST OF IT November 21, 2022I’ve always been fascinated by presentations. I even wrote a book on the subject. I never believed, as some seem to, that how you delivered the message was all that mattered (content is king) but presenting persuasively is no bad thing.So I watched Jeremy Hunt’s “Autumn Statement” keenly. Jeremy’s a spare, bony chap with tiny, […]
- THE GROWTH MYTH November 14, 2022This is not going to be about the folly that occurred in the UK with Ms Truss last month or at least not much about that. Instead it’s a reflection on the thinking that has driven business and the management of money over my lifetime. Increasingly in a world currently talking now about recession, growth seems […]
- We gotta get out of this place... November 7, 2022It was 1965. The Animals.We gotta get out of this placeIf it's the last thing we ever doWe gotta get out of this place'Cause girl, there's a better life for me and youThese are the words which became the theme song of the Vietnam War and are burnt into my brain.Every time I get away […]
- So What's Next? October 31, 2022I was recently having a conversation with my Mother-in-Law about death. She’s 100 in a few days’ time. It wasn’t morbid but on her part there was just a genuine sense of curiosity. Her younger daughter had in a matter-of-fact way told her “when it’s over, you’re switched off then they bury you and you […]
- Come back Monty Python October 24, 2022This TV show ran between 1969 and 1974. It was sometimes hilarious, sometimes dull but always nibbling at the edge of good taste, convention and conservatism. Python in its often ridiculous way captures the foolishness of authority.In the recent cost of living crisis as the media has embarked on money saving food ideas, offal and […]
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