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LONDON — It’s fair to say that people who are deeply suspicious of… everything… have had a banner week. The President of the United States of America released his birth certificate. Why? TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — Or so says Andy Gill in today’s Independent review of new records. And what a week it is. A new Elbow album. A new REM one too. And a third from Noah and The Whale. All well reviewed. Any one of those would be good enough to [...] MY KITCHEN, VERY EARLY — Out of the corner of my eye I spotted an article this week: The Environmental Protection Agency set the value of a life at $9.1 million last year … [recently] the agency [had] used numbers as low as $6.8 million. OXFORD STREET — Okay you’re not running Egypt. But imagine you were. Or let’s be clearer. You have been given a new project: Get that Egypt thing sorted out. Easy, right? They made it through the frogs and locusts, etc. No, okay. Seriously. (And apologise in advance to the people who are working hard to bring change to that country.) But what [...] LONDON — I have been on a BBC topical-news show kick this year. And earlier in the year I was watching a show called something like What the Arabs did for us… It made the point that many, many interesting thing were created in times of conflict. And there is an unassailable logic to that. If you look simply at what has been [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I love Doha. I was thinking about that as I wrote a friend at QTel in Qatar. It’s a lovely place and I know some lovely people there. This week we have seen lots of poorly disguised derisive comments made about Qatar and it’s [...] LONDON — It is sad to see another attack and lives lost in the Russian Republic of Chechnya today. Language, culture, religion… all poisoning the well in a distant part of the world. It’s easy for people likely to be reading this blog to look at today’s breaking news and say: “Will they never learn!” or “What a mess they have made [...] MONDAY MORNING OVER BREAKFAST — I am honestly not wanting to get into a philosophical discussion here. I was just wondering about something. It’s a question for change management professionals. If you were called by the Vatican and asked to support them on change management, what would you do? Where would you start? It wouldn’t be hard to find a burning [...] BY THE THAMES — There’s an interesting article about Transocean in The Sunday Times last weekend (subscription required). Perhaps you read it? I have been expecting something to come out, and certainly the implication is that we will hear a lot more about Transocean in the near future. I am sure there’s a lot to say [...] MY KITCHEN — Nothing like a Saturday morning read of the papers to generate a good old rant. This morning I am caught by the Independent’s cover story on women in senior business roles in the UK. Have a read if you want numbers and even if you just want to read [...] |
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