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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 [...] HYDE PARK CORNER — I had a run of texts from a politically obsessed British friend last week. “Have you heard the latest joke about Chris Christie?” I hadn’t. In fact I hadn’t even heard of Chris Christie. I was still catching up on the impossible rise and fall of Rick Perry (who I also hadn’t heard of a [...] LATE IN LONDON — We like lists and in recent times this blog may have been harder on Internal Communicators than is deserved. So here are a few things that you can do in a single day. They will advance your case, secure your reputation and make your organisation more successful. 1. Create a six month plan on one page Put [...] ST ANDREW’S — The temperature drops about 3 degrees in 500 yards from the town down to the Old Course. And it’s not 26C like London. It’s 9C. The town is a buzz 10 days before the wedding of William and Kate, who met here. Further to the south in town the old [...] Washington, DC — It’s great to read good American newspapers again, like the Washington Post. For the first time ever it has made me think about retirement. Because that’s when I will be able to read the Post, and weekly editions of the New Yorker, from cover to cover. It was alarming to hear two [...] MY HOUSE — I’ve left the Sunday Times’ 100 Best Companies to Work For 2011 by the kitchen table. Just so it stares at me over breakfast. Once I used to read it with interest. I’d look for companies I knew. I’d see what I could learn from them. I don’t do that so much anymore. And I am not [...] 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 [...]
WORLD’S END — I hadn’t realised how odd an address this is to be writing from. But maybe it’s fitting. 30+ years ago I arrived at a boarding school in rural Ontario. I had been living the previous two years in Paris and two years before that in Kenya. While still a Canadian, I was a smart-ass, and a French-fueled nihilist. The Cold War [...]
Avram Grant is becoming superstitious Board backs Houllier to ‘change culture’ Grant pushed [...] LONDON — A whole lifetime of planning and meticulous work ended with the death of Sir Thomas Tresham on 11 September 1605. He had been working on a beautiful hill-top house in Northamptonshire and the lavish gardens surrounding it. A pious Catholic in a Britain that was only settling into Anglicanism, he hid his piety in quiet symbolism around the [...] |
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