Recent Blogs.- COMMON SENSE AND THE UNEXPECTED September 13, 2021The Oxford English Dictionary definition of “common sense” is blessedly to the point:“the ability to think about things in a practical way and make sensible decisions.”Recently I read something that Tony Blair said. He’s 68 and a somewhat discredited blast-from-the-past. His think-tank (The Institute for Global Change) claims that consistent, widespread, but relatively small changes […]
- DO WE REALLY KNOW BETTER? September 6, 2021As technology hurtles us along a path of unending knowledge advancement something odd is going on. We seem to know less and less and we’re making more mistakes. Big ones. Whoppers.I’m so enthralled by this I’m taking a week off to let my mind empty of assumptions. I shall be eating, drinking, listening to fine […]
- HARD WORK NEVER KILLED A MAN August 30, 2021Advertising legend David Ogilvy said: “Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.”For much of my career I was an apostle of Ogilvy, a believer in the 24/7/365 school of martinets. I even designed a 24 hour training programme to see how people performed under that sort of […]
- NOTHING MUCH TO LAUGH ABOUT August 23, 2021I was unsurprised to hear a joke that must have been around for ages during the Olympics.A man walking through the Olympic village sees a tall guy carrying a long aluminium tube. He sidles up to him and says:“Are you a pole-vaulter?”“Nein” says the man “I’m a German … but how did you know my […]
- IT'S THE SILLY SEASON AGAIN (AND WORSE) August 16, 2021They used to call August the silly season. Well, like Voldemort in the Harry Potter novels, it’s back. After months of competitive Covid with us out-vaccinating the EU (especially France) only to discover their infection levels are still below ours because of their more stringent controls - we’re now all talking about other things.Anger however remains […]
- COMMON SENSE AND THE UNEXPECTED September 13, 2021