thoughts, musings and occasional rants
Since our report was published, I have repeatedly been asked to explain what we mean when we say standard credentials don’t tell us what a person is capable of doing. That question deserves an answer, so here it is.
Want to know what could make your company outperform its sector average by a factor of 2 or 3 or even more than 4? Then you might want to read a report that came out today. A consortium (in which … Continued
Not fitting into pigeonholes can be a badge of honor. Just do the best you can with your unusual mix of talents and apply your talents toward good purposes. Yes, not fitting a mold will put some extra aggravations in your way. But the satisfaction you can find in what you achieve can make it all worthwhile.
I have submitted an entry for The Next Macgyver contest and perhaps you should, too. This contest is to come up with the concept for a new television show featuring a quick-thinking engineer, as Angus Macgyver was—but this time the … Continued
Nobody can change the world alone. If that’s what you would really like to do, it’ll need teamwork. Just make sure your team is a good one.
I just finished reading The Martian by Andy Weir. I enjoyed it a lot, especially the exhaustive details—and the attitude. NASA isn’t the only place you can find it, but it has been damned hard to find elsewhere.
Two good things I loved to use have come to an end, Nando’s loyalty card (not allowing transfers from old to new) and TransportDirect (for which there was no true equivalent).
In business you need customers, and you need suppliers… but sometimes you just need a friend.
Despite an uneven start to 2014, on the whole it’s a decent economic picture for the time being. After what we went through in recent years, I hope we will all make hay while the sun is shining.
I can’t recall the last time I saw a November and early December like this year’s in the UK. I am delighted to see economic recovery here. But it has more ground to cover before it will be a solid, healthy recovery.