Pass the Tequila I have just been thrown a lemon!
I have always worked. From a young age I was taught that if I wanted something I had to pay for it and a job was the way to go. If I remember rightly, I think I was around 9 when I got my first paper round. Well let’s skip through the years as over [...]
Big Society – Bigger Issues
Forget altruism. Everyone is self interested. My experience of those who set up benevolent, non profit making organisations is that it is a very short while between getting the great warm fuzzy feeling that comes from helping the apparently helpless, to the idea that, well, there should be some greater reward.
Doing Business in challenging environments
Last year I wrote about the implications of doing business in areas of conflict . I was pleased to see that in some places things have moved on when I attended a panel discussion in London last Thursday. The event was entitled Unlocking Africa’s potential through partnership- and the central question the panel had to address was, How can the private sector [...]
Pension reform 101
The Pension Reform From October 2012 onwards all eligible workers will have to be automatically enrolled in a Qualifying Pension Scheme. There will be minimum contributions required from each worker and employer. The Qualifying Scheme could be your existing company scheme if it meets the qualifying criteria, or the National Employment Savings Trust – the [...]
“We let it slip”
“We let it slip” Image by howzey via Flickr Mervyn King is apparently only the second governor of the Bank of England ever to address the TUC in its 142 year history. Well that’s nice. He even started with a wee bit of humility and a grudging acceptance that he and his cronies at the [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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