“I also do believe that for personal success in life, in a much more interdependent world, the capacity to understand another culture has to become one of the prerequisites of an educated person.”  Wow.  I’m making a .ppt slide of that right ...

A refreshing tip for 2008: tear up the textbook Simon Caulkin, management editor for The Observer, Sunday December 30 2007 It’s 2008 (almost), and time for some management reappraisals. On th one hand, the excesses of the private equity era are so ...

“Culture” is to a group what “personality” is to an individual. People of different cultures share basic concepts but view them from different angles and perspectives, leading them to behave differently. If you are interested in your own valu...

Ian Sample October 4, 2008 A STUDY of bastards in the workplace, a theory on the relationship between sound and food and some odd revelations on the medical values of placebos have all been recognised as contributions to learning, with their inclusi...

A powerful coaching tool I use but never knew it has been around for 20 years or so. I just copied and pasted the explanation from Wikipedia. Have a read… Author: Imran   Clean Language in Detail Clean Language combines four general elements of c...

An article I found in HR Magazine makes an interesting point about what suppliers of coaching services think they offer and what buyers expect.‘…First there was executive training, then came mentoring, and hot on its heels has followed everyt...

I have always felt strongly about mental health (call it burn-out, depression, bipolar or whatever) and have had to pick up the pieces of a few high-flying professionals who lost the plot whilst in high-powered jobs. Realising that individuals are no...

Saturday and the kids are munching on croissants and we are happly slurping our coffes to our hearts content and reading our usual parts of the newspaper. I, to be honest, read very little until later on in the day but one short article caught my att...

Hi everyone! Bill has brought to my attention an interesting article on “what makes a great manager”… Are you ready for the magic recipe? According to Gerard M. Blair, author of the article and Senior Lecturer in VLSI Design at the University ...