My prayer for the recession

Good times breed bad habits – as we have all discovered, or – as the gentlemen on the left observed, “prosperity doth best discover vice; adversity doth best discover virtue”. More about him in a minute. Here are few things …

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Fancy an interesting job?

If you want to know what has been done with the money you have paid in tax, apart from propping up banks that can’t count, go no further than the jobs pages of The Guardian. Because there are the jobs …

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Comedian of the week … He-e-e-e-r-e’s Patrick!

Email marketers, doncha love ’em? Step forward, Patrick McGlone of cvent.com who sent me the following quite astonishing message, headed (unbelievably): Lunch Seminar – Best Practices for Event Management, Web Surveys and Email Marketing This strikingly imaginative heading was followed …

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Advice from two millionaires

I greatly fear my old boss thinks I’m an idiot – so I’m going to change, starting now A while ago I went to have dinner in New York with him. He was CEO of the Ogilvy Group when I …

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The great Olympics heroics

“We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality,” wrote the historian Macaulay. Well, I think the British public in one of its periodical fits of Olympiamania takes a bit of …

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