It was all going splendidly. I had bought a new house, and been promoted. Life was good. Until one sunny May afternoon I am in my car sitting at traffic lights when the driver behind me has a ‘momentary lapse of concentration’, and runs into me at 35 mph. My car looks as if Superman [...]
November 15, 2011
Failure demand
I recently changed my energy supplier, I expected it to be a straightforward task. I was wrong. It all started with a brief email… I received it from EDF, my new energy supplier, saying they had a message for me. They didn’t tell me what the message was, they simply asked me to visit their [...]
November 7, 2011
Twitter Apps (Updated)
I have a love-hate relationship with Twitter. I started to use it some time ago and rapidly got fed up with the simple Twitter.com interface. I found TweetDeck and loved it. It organised my inbox, my direct messages, and mentions in to separate columns. It had a nice clear, friendly interface. Yet, everyday I’d try and read the increasing number of [...]
October 31, 2011
Netwalking – yes, net-walking
I now manage a Linked In group aimed at HR professionals working in, and with HR in the Cambridge area. We have been doing the networking lunches for some time, so the idea of doing something a bit different appealed. My friend Vandy and I had come across the idea of being active and going for [...]
October 31, 2011
A new blog
For a few years I have been running a free coaching blog. I like doing it and it gets a good number of hits. I will continue to update it. Recently, though I have noticed I wanted to write some stuff that perhaps fitted better elsewhere. I have now moved a couple of posts from [...]
October 30, 2011
TEDx Granta
I am just back from a near-perfect conference. I go to conferences because I am attracted by the sound of the headline speakers. There is the potential for interesting conversations, and hopefully there is a nice venue. And so often I have come back the speakers were OK – they had obviously done their thing too many [...]
November 22, 2011
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