Remember the restaurant scene in When Harry met Sally when she says, “I’ll have what she’s having.” Well, every day kind people tell me they like my ramblings, but this from Ian Dunsford had me in stitches. “A lot of …
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He was doing what he loved and hating every minute of it
I got a lot of comments about this when I sent it out to my list, so if you haven´t seen it, here it is: Maybe you sometimes think I’m talking piffle, but are too polite to say so. Thank …
Read MoreMy beautiful Thai mirror – and why the the size of your bottom makes a difference
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 …
Read MoreA 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 …
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