Having recently embarked on an attempt to grow a beard for the first time in my 34 years – What? What are you looking at me like that for? – I have been quite surprised at people’s reaction to it. Flatteringly, some have remarked that they like it, others...
This 5-4-Friday is very brief, due to numerous commitments this week, but has been inspired by the media-naïve antics of Iain Moody and Malkay Mackay, both ex of Cardiff City football club. Their media woes sparked a bit of a post-TNF shout–out about sporting people...
Those of you that work in an office environment for a medium to large-sized company will probably attend far more meetings than you believe to be useful, effective or desirable. We know that they are a necessary evil in some circumstances but there are just far too...
The commonly held view seems to be that modern life is far too stressful. “Life was much easier back in the day”, as your mother and granny always used to say. In actual fact, it probably isn’t much harder these days at all. It’s probably a hell of a lot easier, if...
Over the years, I have had the pleasure (and at times displeasure) to have travelled a lot with my job. In the past this involved a lot of overseas travel, the need for which, many people considered me to be very fortunate. I can assure you that, aside from the odd...
