Archive for March, 2008
Complete Communication Complexity
By admin at 31 March, 2008, 9:57 pm
I said to my wife, “I believe my problem is I have current and future communication complexity”. She said “w*nker”. I said “I’ve got a phone problem” so she said, “then fix it”.
1. I work out of 3 offices (that’s including the kitchen table at home).
2. At one of my offices, I am not the [...]
How to Execute a favour
By admin at 19 March, 2008, 10:36 am
How to execute a favour (is it just me that this sounds weird to?)
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how I dislike favours Almost certainly someone whom knows me well has read the article and thought b*llshit, you’ve done me favours!
Its not true though, I don’t do favours anymore, I [...]
The sausage, the sizzle and the whole bloody bbq
By admin at 19 March, 2008, 9:42 am
I used to sell people. Although I had the occasional slave trader vision, usually accompanied by lots of whipping, the reality was much more mundane. Apart from the part where no one wanted to have coffee with me – it turned out I had developed the habit of sacking people at coffee, but [...]
Read More >>Staff Retention
By admin at 3 March, 2008, 10:33 pm
Having run a number of businesses full of Gen Y staff, I found that they were very focused on managing their own career. Topics such as loyalty normally drew blank faces, as the industry norm was career advancement through job hopping.
In fact many of my competitors refused to train staff as they knew it meant [...]
