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TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD — Our friend Stefan Stern, ex of the FT and now of Edelman has written an HBR blog about BP and the communication and cultural issues that got them into the trouble they have been in. It’s an interesting read and has elicited some [...]
SOUTH WEST LONDON — Well? Someone has to ask. It wasn’t that long ago I was explaining to clients where “internal communications” came from. It was a “discipline”, it came from the business realisation that people were a key part of their asset portfolio… and now that we had driven down supply costs, making people more efficient had to do with Internal [...] GREEN PARK — The papers today say that we’ve hit a 23 year low for employee sick-days. That’s no small achievement. If you listened to the average mumblings of commentators, employees are fed up and… work is horrible and… and… But maybe that’s not true. Maybe work is more interesting than it was. Maybe [...] BROMPTON ROAD — The story won’t go away. Although coverage might have lightened today. The 13 different Chinese 18-24 year-olds who have tried to kill themselves this year are not going unnoticed. Most of them died. But the world outside Shenzhen in southern China has paid attention. Shortly after the media had packed [...] CHELSEA — Foxconn is a Taiwanese company you have probably never heard of. And yet they have 800,000 employees. They employ 2,000 singers, dancers and gym trainers to entertain them. They put 6,000 pigs to the knife every day to feed their 400,000 employees on one site. That site covers 1.2 square miles. Because so many [...] TCR — What did you make of the football banner photo above? I took it last night at the Europa Cup Final in Hamburg. I found it quite amusing when I saw it. Because I think it plays on all our worries about social inclusion and the language that we use. What do you [...] TCR — My mother’s maiden name was Young. And her sister’s called Carol. So, I know it’s a bit of a stretch, but I feel quite proprietary about Carl Jung. Jung and Freud are also set to be the subject of a saucy film about their relationship with a Russian emigree. It will be out next spring and star [...] A&H HQ — This is too much fun. Workers at Carlsberg have gone on strike because they have lost their right to drink free beer ALL DAY. To be clear, they will still get free beer at lunch. There is a business policy about not being drunk at work, they explain, etc. I used to work [...] IN MY KITCHEN — I was just thinking last week that triathlons and marathons have become the new mid-life crisis. And then I read the story in the Sunday Times Style Magazine: “The rise of the IRON MAN”. Turns out that triathlons are the fastest growing mass-participation sport in the UK. The article cites [...] LONDON — There’s a great report out now from my old mates at Towers Watson. It’s called the Global Worksforce Survey. They do it every year, and it has lots of interesting stuff in it. [Although don't be fooled into [...] |
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