Author Archives: Administrator
Staying ahead of the pack
IS it just me or is contemporary food packaging in danger of outsmarting the average consumer as big businesses compete to out-convenience and out-clever one another? This occurred to me the other day when my teenager – whom I consider … Continue reading
Take back your lunch break
MOST management strategies are designed to improve productivity. Many of these are based on daunting tomes of complicated research and rationale, which are compiled by brilliantly brainy pomposities of professors, professionals and the equally proficient people they surround themselves with. … Continue reading
Looking for a new leader? It’s all in the stars
ARE you, along with the rest of the country, looking for a great new leader for your organisation? Perhaps you are after a dynamically direct, no-nonsense type who will take charge and run your business like a smoothly synchronised scrum … Continue reading
Teambuilding in the ‘lurve’ bath
GROUP affirmation, I imagine, is something like I imagine group sex to be, I imagine: some get more out of it than others, I imagine – not that I think about it often, really. This occurred to me as I … Continue reading
Meandering along the Mosel
“WHAT colour are they now, thy quiet waters? The evening star has brought the evening light, and filled the river with the green hillside; the hilltops waver in the rippling water, trembles the absent vine and swells the grape in … Continue reading
Buzzwords that bug
THE closing moments of a recent telephone conversation went as follows: “We’re on the same page then. The bottom line is that we leverage a win-win scenario by shifting paradigms and thinking out of the box…at the end of the … Continue reading
Assistants from hell
MOST are friendlier than Jonty Rhodes at a children’s charity event, but every so often you come across one who is as short-tempered as French president, Nicolas Sarkozy and meaner than an arthritic buffalo in a horse-trailer. I refer, of … Continue reading
When spud became celebrity
IT’S a while ago now but I still remember how the news excited me: 2008 was the International Year of the Potato. To be sure, it was groundbreaking stuff. So significant in fact, that the initiative was officially announced by … Continue reading
Decanting wine 101
ONE hypothesis is that decanting can improve the drinking quality of certain wines prior to pouring it into a glass. Actually, my first attempt at it – as a student, decades ago – had quite the opposite effect. Determined to … Continue reading
A tree hugger’s holiday
OF course size matters – the bigger, longer and wider the better. I like old and knobbly ones too. Rough or smooth, alien or indigenous, all are good for me. I am, of course, talking about trees. For sure, I … Continue reading
Penny Haw 