Are all bank systems designed by cretins, or is it just Lloyds’? Yesterday they refused me cash, no doubt because their sophisticated multi-million-pound computers, worried about fraud, haven’t noticed I visit the US 5 or 6 times a year and …
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This man puts me where I belong: at the end of the intellectual line
Someone once said to Churchill that his socialist opponent, Attlee, was a very modest man. “He has much to be modest about”, growled the old man. That is rather how I feel when contemplating my latest client, Tony Buzan, who …
Read MoreAsleep on the job? Surely not.
After a bracing few days pontification at Ken McCarthy’s System Seminar in Chicago, I’m back in Brooklyn to find I have become a grandfather again – though I’m very worried, as young Rowan Drayton is 2 months premature. So we …
Read MoreA little healthy debate – and my election manifesto. Vote early and vote often for Ian’s dog Moose!
I normally try not to repeat myself too much, but I just had an interesting exchange on Facebook with David Hodson – well, interesting to David and me, anyhow. I first wrote that Gordon Brown in an attempt to seem …
Read MoreWorld’s best seminar invitation: The Power of Assertive Commmunication – for women
Turning aside from the depressing Annual Report and Accounts of Kiddy-Fiddlers-For-Jesus (Rome) Inc., let us get back to business. As regular readers may have noticed, one of my chief pleasures in this wonderful digital age is to take note of …
Read MoreHappy Easter – from Moscow
I thought you might like this. It’s from my Russian publisher, and it rather took my fancy. Tomorrow I’m off to New York to see a couple of my children … and put together my talks for Ken McCarthy’s System …
Read MoreBe careful what you wish for
An Aussie truckie walks into an outback cafe’ with a full-grownemu behind him. The waitress asks them for their orders. The truckie says, ‘A hamburger, chips and a coke,’ and turns to the emu, ‘What’s yours?’ ‘I’ll have the same,’ …
Read MoreSorry, but a good idea is NOT enough
Like most of you, I get a lot of stuff trying to sell me things. I would cheerfully strangle whoever unleashes those bloody recorded messages just about that time in the late afternoon when I think I really need a …
Read MoreWhen it’s party time, an idea for you from a tragic musical failure
Life has a strange way of working. One of my greatest passions is music. I come from a musical family. I love jazz, opera, classics, R and B, Soul, Blues, even a bit of rap and rock – pretty much …
Read MoreWho is the odd man out – and more important – WHY? Plus a relevant free webinar
My old pal Glenmore sent me this. One of these people is different from the others in many important respects. Lord Stevenson: former chairman, HBOS Sir Fred Goodwin: former chief executive, RBS Andy Hornby: former chief executive, HBOS Sir Tom …
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