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Honour your father

HOME — I’ve been wearing my dad’s tie all week.  It’s a university tie from Bishop’s University outside Montreal.  My dad was president of the University earlier this century.  He was always quietly dapper without being too flash.  [Okay, the man-bag he carried while we lived in Paris was a bit cutting edge.]

There’ve been some [...]

Labour Day: How we can save the world

LONDON — There’s no sense bring timid about it: Let’s save the world.

Everyone seems to agree that the planet is in dire shape. And we are making it worse father than better.  Al Gore and now John Prescott (sic) are evangelising about the need for action.

But there’s one important thing that’s missing…

…And I believe that [...]

MOD, Army… Forces communications and values

CRANBERRY HIGHWAY — The flags around Cape Cod are at half mast.  A boy from around here died in Afghanistan last week.

On the way down through New Hampshire last week we shared a dodgy truck stop with a bus full of GIs.  All unfailingly polite and… to a 43-year-old like me… young, small and [...]

MySpace speaks up for… the analysts?

“MySpace today announced its intent to restructure its international operations and refocus personnel around a smaller number of territories, while retaining a robust global consumer presence.”

That’s what News Corporation’s MySpace said in their press release yesterday.  According to the Flesch-Kincaid reading ease measures that sentence requires about 15 years of formal education to understand it.  The average age of [...]

Renewing your corporate values in 2009

 

TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD – I don’t know any organisation that has not been affected by the global recession of 2008/09.  Whether it’s layoffs, sell-offs or even surprising growth, the deal between companies and their employees has changed.

It used to be that companies had loyalty to their employees.  But the idea of a job for life and [...]

Employer Brand – building from the inside out

FROM THE DESK OF EMMAJANE — Walking into a friend’s workplace recently, nothing hit me harder than then dark grey, medium grey and medium-light grey walls and carpets. Many of the employees were wearing grey too.

My friend is a cheery and jokey sort and has a disposition so different to her mother’s, the nature/nurture debate [...]