Do you ever feel that you are sinking? You are bombarded with e-mails, phone calls, and meetings, all of which are calling for your attention NOW! Then to top it off your boss tells you that your problem is that you can’t see the wood for the trees? Well, you are not alone. The human […]
Nothing Hurt But My Ego
It is a truism that you learn by failing. I recently bought a pair of clip in shoes for my bicycle. Everybody told me I would fall over once, they were right, it happened when I came to a stop at some traffic lights at the head of a queue of cars (very embarrassing). At […]
Technophobic
In 1997 the IBM computer Deep Blue beat the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. This was a revelation, perhaps one of the greatest moments in information technologies’ history. IT was the future and we would all come to rely on it. Well we do, we can’t seem to get anything done nowadays without having a […]
If a Job’s Worth Doing
It is worth doing well. God alone knows what the neighbours think. Happy Christmas
Fooling Yourself
Very often the solution to all administrative ills is to have somebody carry out “Quality Control” on everything that is sent out. That way you can be absolutely sure that it is all correct, with no chance of error. Some departments have an army of Quality Controllers who don’t release anything unless it has been […]
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