Category Archives: Workplace space

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

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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

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At the mercy of beeps and vibrations

IT happens every time a plane taxis to a standstill on the tarmac and the seatbelt lights expire with a customary “ping”: There is frantic fumbling in the seats and aisles as cellphones are hurriedly switched on and, like nervous … Continue reading

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