Forget all you know: there are just two learning styles
Your learning style is closed-loop or open-minded
A venomous but non-fatal sting: the Hornet’s Nest report is fundamentally flawed
No analysis, no argument, just assertion: A Hornet’s Nest is a bad piece of work
Government minister uses 30 year-old cliché; offended charities go ballistic
The Third Sector’s up in arms today after the new Minister for Civil Society, Brooks Newmark, said that he thought charities should ‘stick to their knitting’. The response isn’t that … Continue reading
Late night pile up: a tragic story of business, branding, succession planning and jokes
Here in the UK we don’t really follow the US late-night talk show hosts. Sure, we get the Tonight Show and The Daily Show on cable, and Letterman has bounced … Continue reading
Birgitte Nyborg made me feel like an old whore: what Borgen’s Sidse Babett Knudsen told Nordicana
There’s a scene in Frasier when our eponymous hero tries to get his father Martin to take a trip to Paris. He argues that Martin will be a big draw … Continue reading
Some problems are non-coms
We’ve been talking at work about improving internal communications. Some of the issues that people are describing as internal comms issues, aren’t, in my view. In a triumph of serendipity, … Continue reading
Hey Microsoft! Nice marketing, shame about the sales copy
Microsoft have long understood that if you can make your platform into ‘the standard’, then sales and notoriety follow. That’s how they won the desktop war. They also understood that … Continue reading
Project management
One of the drawbacks of doing a distance learning MBA is that you don’t meet your fellow students very often. But one of my modules – project management – is … Continue reading
