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SW LONDON — “Is that what the kids are calling it these days?” That used to be my stock answer to things I didn’t understand. I thought of it as a knowing wink to the way that old people talk. But as my own age has been rising faster recently than East Coast temperatures, it has become less funny and more [...] CROMWELL ROAD — There was a little girl with her dad on the bus today. She cried the whole trip. “I don’t like the teachers…! I don’t want to go…! I want my MOMMY…!!” That kind of crying that is so deep and, after a while, so filled with mucus that breathing is affected. The adults shifted uncomfortably. Because half [...] 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 [...] LONDON — I am very pleased that this is National Novel Writing Month. It is, I think, just a ruse for a book publishing website. But for me, it’s working. My 13-year-old daughter and I started yesterday morning. We get up early and tap away in the kitchen before the sun comes up. On day two she’s on [...] 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 [...] HYDE PARK — I watched an episode of Mission: Impossible with my 11-year-old yesterday. It was 1968 and they had to trick a bad guy into believing it he’d been frozen for 12 years. So they froze him and he “woke up in 1980″. It was great to see what 1980 looked like from 1968. There were rocket cars, [...] 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 [...] SPRINGFIELD — I don’t like being told what to do. My wife says that anyway. But when I am on 2 wheels and fighting my way through London streets, I have that Canadian instinct for accommodation. I won’t put myself or anyone else into any peril. So I am constantly surprised when I get told off. And REALLY amazed [...] 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 [...] HYDE PARK — We’ve had a few calls recently from companies where the CEO has said: I want my people to know how to manage change… and they don’t now. The candour appeals to me. I’d only separate the “change” from “manage” to make a point. Few of us are really good at managing change. (With Able and How being [...] |
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