Feb 24 2009
When times are hard, it is only second nature to run and hide. To take time to introspect on us and on our lives. Why? Because, given the economic challenges being faced, stirring trouble by recommending new ideas, new approaches in a time when heads are being counted for axing.
However, we would argue that this [...]
Feb 23 2009
Excellent coverage of what banks doing wrong in dealing with customers by @paolaenergya http://is.gd/kwnu #
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Feb 23 2009
Excellent coverage of what banks doing wrong in dealing with customers by @paolaenergya http://is.gd/kwnu #
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Feb 18 2009
A few years ago I was working for the world’s second largest spirits company. I was the first saleswoman the organisation had in Spain, its most strategically important market in Europe. I was given a geographical area, set the sales targets and after a training period on the field, I began my 6-month baptism-by-fire sales [...]
Feb 16 2009
Having a beer in Madrid airport and wondering why anyone would want to know. Still trying to understand this twitter thing… #
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Feb 13 2009
There is a great debate at the moment relating to bankers’ bonuses. Whether organisations that were bailed-out of imminent failure through the injection of taxholders’ money should be paying bonuses to their staff.
The response the new Chief Executive of RBS, Mr Stephen Hester echoed the views of the banking community in that bonuses were important [...]
Feb 09 2009
Have installed twitterberry on my 8110 so I can twitter on the move. #
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Feb 09 2009
With the onset of the financial crisis, the City is in turmoil. Redundancies are announced on a daily basis, employees escorted out of corporate premises just as frequently. The corporate bodies are responding in a knee-jerk fashion: ‘let’s cut our losses, let’s get rid of the extra “fat” in our organisation and let’s, effectively, run [...]
Feb 08 2009
When we are in school, we play with all of the kids in the playground – bar, of course, the school bully. As children, we want to be included and run home crying if ”Johny, did will play with me”. Societal and organisational norms somehow make us, as we mature, to home in on a certain ”career [...]