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I just had recounted to me a pearl of wisdom attributed to a Dr Peter Asquith. Apparently a surgeon, this sage once saw a colleague completely taken apart on the stand by a silk in a legal case. The lesson he had confirmed to him was, > “never go beyond

The world seems to be coming round to the opinion that Obama is in a job too far. There appears a pretty much universal view that his response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill is both inappropriate and ineffective. One such talking head I saw referred to the mantra of

An airport lounge Reader’s Digest led me to Michael Lynn. He’s a psychologist and professor at New York’s Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration who majors on studying why people tip. One outcome of his work is to deduce how servers in restaurants can increase end

There’s a UK government spending review going on before the new coalition’s upcoming emergency budget. The figures are mind-boggling, so for sanity I thought I’d note the nine tests now newly applied to all spend. Slightly edited for their corporate use, it’s spooky how applicable they

I wonder how difficult it would be for rolling news channels to find anyone with kind words to say about FIFA President Sepp Blatter if they held a debate on the good the World Cup brings its host country? Given the media I’ve witnessed in S Africa none appear

The labyrinthine machinations of buyers’ systems can scupper many a well-meaning salesperson’s ambitions. I have been reminded recently that there are typically two major times when they can obstruct selling plans; at the very beginning and the very end of a campaign. Almost before you start, lurking in the

I was party to a fascinating exchange yesterday. At the end of a meeting a company had delivered all that was required of it to signal the end of one phase of a project, allowing a pause before possible authority to embark on the next stage. This accepted delivery would