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BAHRAIN — This is my first time in Bahrain. That leaves only really Oman in the area that I haven’t been to / worked in. United Arab Emirates? It’s a part of the world that many people can’t (or choose not to) understand. In the last three weeks [...] AT HOME — I’ve been trying to figure out how I ended up with a four-digit dentist’s bill this month, without ever discussing even the procedure, let alone the fees. And I can’t really make sense of it. Similarly we have been working with a mid-level legal firm a few years and we keep getting bills through the door with what seems [...] LONDON — I am still a bit disturbed by an interview I read while on holiday. I have no idea why, while off the grid for a fortnight, I managed to read Lucy Kellaway’s interview with Roland Rudd. But I did. Have a quick read of it and then come back. Let me start by saying that I have no agenda [...] WEST LONDON — There’s a hording around the big, refurbished church at Hammersmith flyover that says TRANSFORMATIONSPACE. The hordings in the photo above are at the base of the new Shard of Glass building at London Bridge. What are they on about? The words ‘change’ and ‘transformation’ are starting to gain some currency in business circles these days. Many, many large companies [...] BROOK GREEN — It might seem obvious what the case for change is, with revolutions rolling across north Africa and the Middle East. Self-immolation seems a good reason. Desperation and people fed up with the status quo is driving daily headlines in the month of February 2011. And that is crisis-driven change. Real, genuine, people-dying-in-the-street change. That’s compelling. But it doesn’t happen in business [...]
Avram Grant is becoming superstitious Board backs Houllier to ‘change culture’ Grant pushed [...]
Might As Well Go For a Soda • You can listed to your local radio half-way around the world. On the 14 bus even. And I now think I may finally know why some Canadian rock and roll never found a larger audience. April Wine? Tom Cochrane? Kim Mitchell? Yea. Google Translate Won’t Do • Speaking [...] LONDON / PARIS — I expect no sympathy for having to spend lots of time in Paris. In fact, I love the fact that I get to work in French again. I had to spend most of the past week reminding myself how ‘change management’ becomes « la conduite du changement » but, by and large, I think I got away [...]
TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — It’s Friday morning. Early. So it must be time for our weekly Board meeting. We meet early at our local wheat germ palace for breakfast and a review of the week’s top developments. This will be a good one. Amidst all the client work, the international visas, chasing months’ overdue invoices (you know who you are) and significant changes [...] |
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