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SHAFTESBURY AVENUE — We have a more formal “news” item to write and probably a paper to publish. But the findings of a number of large comparative analysis assignments this summer are playing on my mind. Communications functions are changing And they’re changing in every possible way. Getting smaller. Focusing on a few core things. Reporting into different places. Delivering [...] 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 [...] PICCADILLY — I sat, tired, with 300 other parents at a school information session about our 13-year-old daughters’ futures. It was exhausting. Not only because school administrators — as a species — don’t seem to be able to speak in public. But because it was really just a parents de-programming session. The main messages were: Don’t force your child to take subjects [...] FULHAM ROAD — I was fairly roundly abused over dinner last night for having this point of view. Apparently many in my generation feel that ‘social convention’ don’t and/or shouldn’t apply to them. And for anyone doing business I think that’s wrong. Whether big or small, there is no need to be rude if it could limit your business. 1. [...] MUNICH — I really love meeting people with a similar career path but totally different background. Today I have had a good chat with a top businessman who used to work in German politics, and I loved what he had to say. Politics, as you know, is bad. Is that right? Earlier today someone had said to me, about someone else: “Oh, [...] OVER THE OLD OTTOMAN EMPIRE — I said years ago that the airport lounge has become the Walden Pond of my generation. It is for me anyway. It’s a place for respite, relaxation and forced reflection. (The two big British fellows putting away a bottle of white a 7h30 this morning might not agree.) I recognise that [...] TCR — Here’s a brave soul. Through a network of former Towers Perrin employees on LinkedIn I have just been forwarded a note from Robert Cornet on his blog. I don’t know him. But I admire his willingness to go into dangerous waters. "Your bill is ready…" SIENA — I know that we don’t always get it right. And writing this might mean that I am more likely to get it wrong. But there are a few things that seem to me to be straight-forward in professional services. If we are charging for time — which we are — then we should [...] AL DUOMO, FIRENZE — I know how I feel about graffiti on historic monuments. I don’t like it. There is no value in defacing ancient monuments, like Lord Byron famously did at The Temple of Poseidon in Greece. But as I stumbled, puffin down the 463 steps from the top of the cathedral in Florence this [...] |
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