To make up for my recent absence, I'm going to reveal to you The Secret of good meetings. OK, OK, I'm back. After more than a month off blogging (well, I did do a rather controversial review of a book) it had better be good, I guess. My friend Jimmy used to draw a graph of time to write a thankyou...
Despite what I said last week, I'm actually a big believer in people not working all the time. I've been feeling a bit chastened this week after reading Marge's comment on last week's blog: basically I'd been suggesting (in light of the ash cloud) that holidays were over-rated, and...
Vocational postgrad courses always sound very worthy. But what’s in it for me? You may recall that last week my HR manager gave me a rather unexpected compliment, suggesting that the rest of the company might have a lot to learn from my interviewing prowess. I thought at the time that this was surprisingly...
Sometimes you need to start interviewing people to work out who you want. Though girls are tricky… I interviewed my first potential COO this week. To be honest I was slightly bounced into it by that recruitment agent I met a while back, given that I haven't totally decided what the profile should...
Nobody likes a bully. But let’s not get too namby-pamby about this. Well there’s only one thing to talk about this week, isn’t there? I don’t know about you, but this bullying stuff prompted some serious navel-gazing chez SD this week. Every time I saw someone in the office who’s previously felt the...
