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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.
Disclaimer: Mathematicians and actuaries; do not read the rest of this article, it will offend your calculative sensibilities. Do you have a minute? A question I hear almost daily from work colleagues. I too use it to borrow other people’s…
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Somewhere between the age of 25 and 45, when we are at the peak of our involvement in career matters and competing for the next position up the greasy pole of corporate life, we go through phases of longing for…
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I once worked for a multi-national company who organised an annual 3-day conference aimed at the 100 most senior employees of the company out of some 3,000. At great expense in time and money, we met, presented our success stories,…
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A lot of politics we’ve been having lately…
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Emails keep coming back to blight my life, on daily basis. In spite the fact that I try to minimize my own output of emails, the overall rate of emails I have to deal with continues to increase. I have…
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I cannot tell you how often I traveled far to attend meetings that said a lot and produced little or nothing…
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Surviving corporate politics is a difficult art to master
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My default setting is to talk fast and finish what I have to say quickly in case my listeners get bored, but more to the point, in case I get bored with myself
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Lawyer: doctor, how many autopsies have you performed on dead people? Witness: all of my autopsies are performed on dead people.
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