Business

There’s a saying that a tidy desk is the sign of a sick mind. (Or that a spotless house is the sign of a wasted life . . . ) With VPNs and the like, more and more of us work from home, where there’s no boss to drop by and be horrified at the...
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Kevin Cryan wrote a short explanation of Simon Caulkin’s column in today’s Observer. It seems that the failures of modern management are no better or worse than we’d have seen 30 or 40 years ago. Despite the growth like topsy of MBAs, we’re seeing little improvement in the quality of decisions that managers take. Indeed, although...
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I was running a workshop this week, and one of the participants had obviously just discovered that Outlook does more than just Email. He’d discovered ‘Tasks’, which held the promise of efficiency and memory as yet unachieved. I still get caught by this in Daylite, as I schedule stuff into the future (specially sales /...
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S’funny. I spend a lot of time working with clients to help make their offices more productive - heck, I even spend all day yesterday teaching a class at Durham Business School on just this subject. And here I am, new to WordPress, and I read that there are some great techniques to make your...
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