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 …
Read MoreUnderpants and Aussie politics – a fond reminiscence
Your’re not going to believe this, but life really is stranger than fiction. My second wife, Anna, was actually born Aroha Te Paora, and was a descendant of chief Honi Heke, the last man to start a shooting war with …
Read More“If their brains were gunpowder they couldn’t blow their noses”
As a lover of the well-turned phrase, I’ve always liked that one, but I’m just re-reading P. G. Wodehouse and being reminded just how funny he is. He summed up one character’s I. Q. thus: “Had his brain been constructed …
Read MoreComedian 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 …
Read MoreIs yours a “knowledge-centric” organisation?
A while ago I got an invitation to the 3rd Annual Global Information Industry Summit. You know the kind of event just by reading the pretentious title. One where all the speakers have titles of such immense gravity that they …
Read MoreAdvice 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 …
Read MoreEurostar blazes! But not with any competence, believe me
Well, I bet you thought you’d got rid of me – no blog for quite a while … and just as you thought it was safe to come out, here I am again. For the last week I’ve been in …
Read More“Difficult social issues” said Mr. Bean, with typical British understatement
I let fly a snort of rage the other morning, thereby plastering my computer screen with quivering snot. The cause was Mr Bean, deputy governor of the Bank of England, who had said “millions of families will be put under …
Read MoreThe 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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