What motivates stars?

It seems appropriate to talk about stars as the Olympics are in full swing in Britain, and we have just won our first gold medal  in rowing.

Identifying star performers is part of common management theory in many businesses. However, while identifying them may be a challenge in itself, doing it consistently and often across many functional disciplines is even more [...]

London at the Olympics is open for business

LONDON — Saturday it was my friend Terry from Toronto.  Sunday it was Jack from Amsterdam.

Sometime this week a man called Clem is coming by the office. We almost recruited him, but he joined the Army instead. We know why he’s in town.

Then there’s Trevor, coming by this week, who I haven’t seen in years…

We know that there are games [...]

Change and the Olympics

LONDON — The Olympics are coming to London for the third time.  But they won’t be the same Olympics.

In 1908 they were held all around my house… I mean in this part of South West London.  The events are most famous for causing the odd Marathon distance…

The Windsor to West London distance was altered from 25 to [...]