Jun222016
There is a well-known and playful joke about a tourist in Ireland who asks one of the locals for directions to Dublin. The Irishman replies: ‘Well sir, if I were you, I wouldn’t start from here’. This is very much how I feel about the…
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Apr272015
Face-to-face communication in business remains important. While we increasingly rely on the convenience of emails, text messages, web casting and social media, we need to balance these online interactions with physical engagement. However digitally enabled we become, we still want to do business with people we know and…
Feb252015
As I anticipate an imminent trip to South Africa to compete in the annual Cape Argus Cycle Tour, the world’s largest timed cycle race no less, there is the respite from a grey, wet London to relish but also, at a personal level, I am…
Dec172014
For me, one of this year’s distinctive themes has been the fascinating tension between opportunities made available to us by relentless technological advances and how we respond in practice when some of these innovations meet our less sophisticated preferences or basic instincts. Last Sunday’s edition of…
Oct122013
Someone once confronted me with the knowing assertion that ‘life is not a popularity contest’. And, of course, this is true, it isn’t. But, equally, as I pointed out at the time, success in life cannot be defined by Machiavelli’s conclusion that “it is much…
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