5-4-Friday… 5 nauseating phrases #2

A while back, May 2014 to be exact, I wrote a blog bemoaning the use of nauseating phrases in the workplace, particularly in meetings. Taking people on a journey down their happy path, warming them up and informing parts of projects are all phrases that, normally...
5-4-Friday… 5 Cycling Things

5-4-Friday… 5 Cycling Things

I have a road bike. I cycle. There, I’ve said it. To be fair, I like to think that I’m not one of those bike bores who only jumped on the bandwagon after Bradley Wiggins and 2012 Olympics. That said, in the six years hat I’ve had the bike, it has spent more time in...
5-4-Friday… 5 Euro 2016 predictions

5-4-Friday… 5 Euro 2016 predictions

So, the latest football season ends with Wigan Athletic winning a league, Leicester City winning the league, Liverpool winning nothing and a bomb scare forcing a Manchester United game to be called off. Pretty standard fare, I suppose. The end of an extraordinary...
PAUSE for breadth

PAUSE for breadth

Nobody really likes the IT Team in any organisation, do they? They get the blame for everything that goes wrong or is delivered late, even on the odd occasion when it isn’t actually their fault. They are universally eyed with suspicion and generally considered to be...
5-4-Friday… 5 air travel things

5-4-Friday… 5 air travel things

I haven’t done an original 54F for a couple of weeks now as I have been traveling quite a bit with work. Many of you who know me will know that, in the past, I used to travel quite a lot and became quite snobby about air travel and highly intolerant of infrequent...