29th October 2009
Does it sometimes seem to you that half the business world is always “in a meeting”? And since at least 20% of the time we spend at meetings is wasted time, do you ever wonder who is actually running businesses these days?
Meetings are paradoxical....
14th October 2009
Most people working in business, indeed in most organisations, are all too familiar with presentations. Making presentations is an activity almost completely divorced from the real purpose of the organisation. Doing good ones is a skill unrelated to any o...
04th August 2009
Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away…oh all right. In 1973, but it feels long ago and far away! Anyway, in 1973, the British economist
E F Schumacher wrote “Small is Beautiful”. He was praising small enterprise at a time when big companies and th...
23rd July 2009
You’ve done it right so far. You have researched the opportunity, produced an excellent CV (or resumé), written a great covering letter, and it has all worked. They want you to come for an interview! Now read on.
The interview is your opportunity to...
10th June 2009
This is an interesting question. English is a hard language to learn, and serious study of any hard subject takes time, effort and sacrifice. There are people who find it quite easy to learn new languages, but they are very few indeed. Most of us have to...
10th June 2009
Well it must be magical, because millions of companies pay billions of dollars for it. Curiously, the same companies find they can do without it when their funds run low. In fact, repeated anecdotes attest to the tendency of companies to cut back first on...
10th June 2009
W H Whyte published “The Organization Man” in 1956. This was an early- perhaps even the first- attempt to describe the impact that an organisation’s culture has on the way its employees behave. Since 1956 we have all become aware that there are many...
10th June 2009
Introduction
The International English Language Testing System (IELTS) came into existence as a need for an internationally-recognised test of English arose among universities, schools, governments and employers. Today, a pre-determined score in the IE...
10th June 2009
In most of the 20 biggest economies of the world the recession is still deepening. Most have already seen sharp economic downturns, and the biggest export-dependent economies, Germany and China, have seen the sharpest of all.
Amid the waves of gloom ci...
12th January 2009
What comes next?
Post recession planning should start now, not be delayed until business starts to improve.
It’s time now to think about what the world of business will be like after the recession, and how to configure your operations for the ma...
