I don’t do Prime but I do find it useful for buying things I don’t really care about that much (a cable tidy anyone?) and great for finding cheap second-hand books when I can’t find them in the Oxfam bookshop. Some people claim they receive a delivery of some sort from them most days: others…
Growth & Sustainability: how do we do that? It was quite a contrast. My first meeting last Wednesday was organised by the Royal Society for Arts in Birmingham entitled “Creating a Democratic Economy”, with a number of presentations about sustainable finance, and a back drop of discussion about sustainability. In short – can we…
SWOT Analysis – Take 3 (at least) The Harvard Business Review strikes again with a good article on strategy and eye-catching headline. If you are a Manager in business, I will guess you have already heard – and may be heartily sick of – SWOT analyses. I stopped using the “traditional” format years ago, preferring…
Know Your Purpose – two words to help guide your personal and business direction. Every month I meet with a small group of fellow consultants from the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD). This month we discussed how we identify the clients we like to work with, which brought us round to discussing the…
The UK is creating lots of headlines, some of which is about economic performance. By the look of most commentary, a slowdown, or recession is looming, if not already here. The focus of a typical report* is the decline of manufactured goods, and this call is echoed worldwide with talks of trade wars, tariffs and…
Over the last week we saw two advertisers censured by the UK’s Advertising Standards Authority as their adverts were deemed to show stereotypical gender behaviour. Both Mondelez (very briefly: men as “hopeless” Dads) and VW (woman with pram along with men as Astronauts) have had adverts banned. But at the same time, another complaint about…