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A song I hadn’t heard in a while came on this morning. It dates back to 1980 and it’s called: Take That Look Off Your Face. One line in particular triggered a thought in my mind. The line in the…
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The cliché goes like this: You cannot judge a book by its cover. This may be true but, it doesn’t seem to be a truth acted upon by most people. You may not be able to judge a book by its…
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The American playwright Neil Simon wrote a romantic play in the Sixties about a newly married couple who go through initial adjustments to accommodate one another including the wife wishing her buttoned-up husband would relax and do fun and crazy…
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So, Omarosa Manigault Newman was hired and fired by the Trump Organisation, including a year at the White House, 4 (Four) times! If this is not enough, the President’s daughter-in-law contacted her offering a fifth job opportunity, this time in…
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Perhaps more than any other living creature, the frog turns up in metaphors to explain or demonstrate a work or business situation. Here are some: Kissing the Frog: when faced with a negative situation that requires doing something unpleasant but,…
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‘Every day, I wake up and see I am good looking. One day, I would like to wake up and find I am rich instead’. These words were uttered to me by a colleague at work when we met in…
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To make sure we all start from the same place, here are some definitions: Catch-22 is a classic novel by Joseph Heller about the absurdity of war. The author coined the phrase ‘Catch-22’ to describe the frustrating dilemma of a circular…
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