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As adults, we observe, analyse and label our children as ‘terrible twos’, ‘pre-teens’, pre-pubescent’ ‘teenagers’, and so on. We like this labeling so much, we seem to apply it to ourselves as we hit thirty, forty, fifty and so on,…
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Science tells us that the superiority of Homo Sapiens (the primate species to which we all belong), over other creatures is all down to the specific biology of the ‘opposable thumb’ in our hands, which allowed us to make tools,…
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Like everyone else, I have had conventional and valuable business advice along the lines of “be good; work hard; own up to your responsibilities, etc.” I also had unconventional and more memorable advice from oddballs and lateral thinkers in the…
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Sometimes I think I have gone mad but when I reflect on what had happened, I am relieved to realise perhaps it is the business world I inhabit that is slowly but surely going completely nuts! No matter how high…
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Weary Wisdom: Although nature sometimes saddles us with less than perfect relatives, it makes up for it by gifting us with the wisdom to make the right decisions. A short conversation overheard in a marine equipment shop in Southern Spain: Very…
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