I have a beautiful mirror from Thailand which was given to me as thank you by the Thai Management Association quite a few years ago, when I made an after dinner speech. At the dinner I sat next to the …
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A little wisdom from Dr. Mardy
Do you like quotations? I love and collect them. I can sit quite happily for hours reading any decent dictionary of them. Good ones are distilled wisdom. Of course, being pathetically vain and insecure I am always thrilled when someone …
Read MoreRandom thoughts of an idle fellow
I was walking briskly to the railway station this morning, as you do, and started thinking about the absolute essentials of communication, as you do. And why? Because I must have tried (with very mixed success) to write just about …
Read MoreHow to breed a nation of drones, cowards and weaklings
Yesterday Warren Cottis from Australia asked me what I study nowadays and I named some books. I read a while ago an excellent one about Alexander Pope, who wrote some 300 years ago that “The proper study of mankind is …
Read MoreHow to breed a nation of drones, cowards and weaklings
Yesterday Warren Cottis from Australia asked me what I study nowadays and I mentioned some books. I love history, and read a while ago an excellent book about Alexander Pope, who wrote some 300 years ago that “The proper study …
Read MoreFolly exposed: the most important piece I have seen in years – from the New York Times
Most people have it all wrong.Every time someone comes to me for advice – as a young American did last week – I give the same dull, unexciting advice. Study. I said, “If you go into a room confident that …
Read MoreHow hard is it to get people to tick boxes? BT’s infinity of boastful incompetence – with a relevant comment from Jeff Bezos
When they lower me into my grave, will I still be waiting for BT broadband? It looks a bit like that. Over the last few weeks, the normally serene Carol in my office has been nigh on rendered insane by …
Read MoreHow to make friends and influence people – or not, as the case may be
I have always – naively perhaps – believed good marketers should make it easy for you to do whatever you want and whenever possible appear welcoming and helpful. So I was intrigued to read what happened when a friend wanted …
Read MoreIf this is how they invest their money, I’d hate them anywhere near mine
Not long ago a credit card firm called Mint whose card I have not used for two years sent me a letter and statement. The statement said I owed them nothing, adding that if I didn’t want to keep using …
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