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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.

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    50 Ways to Read Your Blogger

    With Apologies to Paul Simon…. I wonder if like me, you have noticed that many LinkedIn writers have a number leading or embedded in the title of their articles: 10 Things….; 5 Key…., 3 Most…. Even I got on the…

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    Training Trumps Learning?

    I am indebted to Kirstin Duffield for triggering a chain of thoughts in my mind when she published a post called “Surprising Stats?” Over the years, there has been a gradual shift in young people’s choice of direction after school….

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    A Third of All Jobs Are Worthless

    In the 1978 seminal trilogy of five (sic) books known as the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the fictional planet of Golgarfrincham seniors considered a third of the population to be useless. So, they pretended that the…

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    Boredom in the Boardroom

    Not long ago, boardrooms up and down the corporate landscape were filled with fusty, grey and all but retired gentlemen who were “kicked upstairs” to the hallowed oak-paneled rooms as a reward for career achievements or gratitude for past favours…

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    7 Deadly Sins of Electronic Mail

    Like the universal truism that everyone thinks they have more “common sense” than others, everyone complains of receiving too many useless emails. This is excluding all the junk email and “Dear Friend, can I trust you with my illegally acquired…

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    The Plan is Nothing!

    I believe it was General Eisenhower who once said: “The Plan is Nothing, Planning is Everything”. What he meant by that, I believe, is that in any worthy and complex endeavour such as war, business or major projects, you must…

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