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 | "What's the point of compliance?"; "What is it worth?"; "It just gets in the way!" All questions and comments I've heard throughout my career in operations and various audit functions... |
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 | As small business owners I think we all feel that we have to snatch moments with our family and grab stolen moments of normality. It's our commitment to our business that is going to see us succeed ... |
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 | There are very few sports people that excel in more than one sport at the same time, some move from one to another later in their career but most of the time specialise in one at a time so their efforts can be totally concentrated ... |
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 | In most office environments, the most important use for a fire extinguisher is not to put out a fire. It seems that the good old fire extinguisher has been relegated to a door stop, propping open the wood in the hole when we have a delivery ... |
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 | This weekend I've attended two training events; the first with Dr Joanna Martin, learning about speaking from the stage and the second with Jamie Smart and a very cool group of people exploring being an Awakened Entrepreneur ... |
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 | I have written before about how good it is to visit The National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) and how much you can learn from the past. TNMOC is based at Bletchley Park, in H Block, and was built to house Colossus ... |
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 | I've said it for years. Apparently I'm wrong about peanuts. And about monkeys too. And bananas. I don't know about you, but I've always peeled bananas from the top, or 'stem' end ...
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 | We've all experienced it haven't we; you call up the Customer Services helpline and when you've not got the right information you have to hang up, find it and then call them back. You never get the same person twice ... |
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 | It's Monday morning and I'm in Wolverton at The Garage Arden Park - why? My car failed the MOT on two issues, the 1st being the rear brake pads and the second the anti-roll bar linkage ball joint dust covers ... |
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 | There has been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the quality of care for the elderly in this country. It got me thinking about my Mum, especially as a ''gentle soul'' sent me a message via a Medium ... |
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 | I can only quote an absolute gem of a phrase to start this week's blog which describes me and my business to a T: ''I define myself as a micro business owner''. I'm too tiny to be a small business as it's just me ... |
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 | Continuing the Olympic theme from last week, this time we take a look at the Marketing Triathlon. There are some similarities with the traditional Olympic Triathlon which consists of a swim, cycle and run ... |
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 | I find technology a bit daunting. I like to be shown how to use something and can get very frustrated when I can't get it to work. With 7 computers, a laptop, a printer and fax you can imagine that I get very frustrated ... |
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 | By now I was hoping to reach agreement with The National Museum of Computing to do something long term with them. If it happens it will be a project that has a big slug of marketing in it ... |
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 | One of the most important things about networking is the follow up! And as a seasoned networker I have to admit that's true. The ROI on my networking improves dramatically when I do the follow up properly ... |
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 | Are you like me and put things off that you don't really want to do, not necessarily because they are too hard but because they just don't inspire you? My experience is that we do all sorts of things which aren't of much value ... |
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