The Search for Meaning
Search for meaning is key for managing people longer term. Viktor Frankl put it like this: “If we take man as he really is we make him worse. If we over-estimate we promote him to what he can really be!” Read More
PR – It is for You!
I seem to be meeting up with smart women at the moment. On Monday I had the pleasure of having breakfast with Henrietta Hirst of Par Excellence PR. She is focused, disciplined and knows her market which is hedge funds Read More
Lunching with a Social Media Whizz – Good News!
In order to catch up with the latest goings on the digital world I went off to Dean Street to lunch with the social media whizz, Keren Lerner. She has some great ideas and her company, Top Left Design, builds Read More
Skills for the 21st Century Manager
The January/February issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) has an interesting article pointing out that the world of work has changed dramatically over the past decade, this will be more apparent to the older reader who was not brought Read More
Just for Women?
This weekend’s FT has a very interesting article on career advice for ambitious women. This is based on Heather McGregor’s ‘Mrs Moneypenny’s Careers Advice for Ambitious Women’ (Amazon link) and uses her network of very successful women to make 9 Read More
Plan for a Successful 2012
Christmas has come and gone and now it is time to plan for the next year. January brings hopes, fears and, for some, New Year resolutions that more often than not quickly turn into memories by the end of the Read More
What comes after “Hello”
Networking brings many things to mind. Some of us love it, others quite the reverse. Our breakfast at Home House give us an opportunity to meet new people as well as to deepen current relationships in delightful surroundings. One of Read More
Euro Crisis Diagram
The New Your Times has updated a diagram showing the relative debt positions of the main players in the Euro crisis. It includes the US, Japan and China. The size of the circles reflects the country’s GDP and the colour Read More
The Toss of a Coin?
Fifty percent Heads, fifty percent Tails? Apparently not. Some scientists, Persi Diaconis, Susan Holmes, and Richard Montgomery have done a huge amount of research into this subject and here are the main findings. If the coin is tossed and caught, Read More
The Euro Voting Process Explained?
A ‘Friday Funny’ from The Reformed Broker Other snippets worth a mention, even in these strange times, include: Taxman offering an amnesty to 6,000 HSBC clients with Swiss accounts Credit Suisse shutting its CMBS loan division 11 years in prison Read More