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- Beware False Profits
- For every loser there must be somebody who wins. This recession presents a golden opportunity -- for somebody. Nobody said it would be easy of course, even for the potential beneficiaries out there. I imagine the enthusiasm of California gold prospectors was dented when they asked: "Tell...
- Blog posts 2009-08-04
- Quick, Look Busy... Here Comes the Boss
- There is a wonderful, happy coincidence coming to a head in the world of business. In a recession, staff try to look busy in the interests of self-preservation. That is very convenient for the business leaders because, in a recession, companies tend to overburden staff and trim the fat...
- Blog posts 2009-08-07
- You've Just Bought a Dog, so Why Keep Barking?
- There are two types of job in the world. The first are those jobs that people generally accept require an expert touch. This would include heart surgeon, aircraft pilot and, well, that's pretty much it. And then the second classification -- by far the largest -- includes...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Introducing the ‘Lineker Effect'
- Anybody who grew up watching football in the 1980s will know there has rarely been a goalmouth predator to rival Everton, Barcelona, Tottenham and England striker Gary Lineker. From three yards out there was no more deadly a finisher than the perma-tanned Match of the Day presenter....
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- Did somebody say P-A-R-T-Y?
- Reasons to be cheerful are thin on the ground in the business world right now. It turns out we're in a recession (really? The media should have said something!). But chances are, companies will still be trying to do what they can to keep morale high. In many parts of...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Bosses Know the Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing
- My boss has an incredible ability to know the cost of everything. Like Dustin Hoffman's Rain Man assessing a spillage of toothpicks cast upon the floor, he has a sixth sense when it comes to the ability to walk around the office and begrudge the cost of everything, from wages...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Has the Recession Stress-Tested Your Boss?
- I've seen at least three separate pieces of research in as many weeks that suggest around a third of us don't particularly like our CEOs. And? Aren't we supposed to dislike our bosses? At least a third of us probably should, because we all look for different things in what...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- 3 Months' Notice? You Get Less For Drink Driving
- There are a number of things in every workplace that make no earthly sense. It might be a colleague improbably promoted to a position of responsibility despite possessing all the mental prowess and charisma of an abandoned supermarket trolley. Or perhaps it is a system of meritocracy...
- Blog posts 2009-10-07
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