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Commenting on the world of business I inhabit is one of my passions. The trouble with passion is that it very often manifests itself when one is angry or unhappy about things. The net result is that the writer appears to be miserable and dissatisfied with everything; I assure you this is not the case with me otherwise, why would I stick around? I hope you enjoy some of the articles.
Little Red Riding Hood was sent by her mother with a basket of food to visit her ailing grandmother. Although her mother urged her to use a more frequented thoroughfare, Little Red Riding Hood took a short cut through the…
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‘When arguing with a fool, make sure the other person isn’t doing the same thing’ is an old proverb which I always ascribed to. In 1999, psychologists Dunning and Kruger described a phenomenon of incompetent people who actually think they…
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Think about this one: When they tell you: you only have X days, months, to live. What do you do? Ignore first reactions like panic, sadness, regrets and the rest of it, what do you actually do? Just to be…
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Here is a trick question for you: what is the reason for every death that had ever occurred throughout human history? Remember, I said it was a trick question. Your first reaction is to say: ‘are you serious? People die…
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Governments issue corporate governance guidelines, academics write books about it, institutions hold conferences on it, organisations add extra pages to their annual reports claiming to be compliant with the guidelines and individuals, including me, take it upon themselves to train…
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As the COVID-19 ‘lockdown’ is being gradually eased all over the world, we hesitantly emerge from our home-confinement with blinking eyes kitted out with home-made masks, clutching almost-empty sanitizer bottles, sporting bad haircuts that make hairdressers rub their hands in…
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Have you ever wondered why, relatively speaking, there is less airplane failure in mid-air, even if an engine catches fire or some other similar major event? I will tell you at the end of the blog. ‘sweat your asset’, ‘cash…
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Amid the thick fog of isolation, social distancing and inability to resume normal routine, most of us have kept in touch with the outside world by utilising the wonders of technology from the humble Skype to more sophisticated means of…
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Oh how I long for those happy days when all of Europe and most of the world was talking about nothing else but the UK leaving the EU, otherwise known as BREXIT. Here in the UK, Brexit by far was…
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“Never trust a second-hand car salesman”. That was the received wisdom ever since second-hand cars began to be traded over a 100 years ago. As far as this stereotypical salesman was concerned, he would lie, cheat and make any promise…
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