Posted on April 26, 2010 by Nick
Off to Leicester last week for my annual pilgrimage to DeMontfort University, where the business studies courses include a ritual called Fox’s Lair – a thinly disguised version of TV favourite dragon’s Den. Teams of students put together a business idea, draw up a plan and present it to the Dragons – no, I mean [...]
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Posted on March 1, 2010 by Nick
A very amusing story caught my eye; covered in the business pages of several newspapers today. A property company called Drivers Jonas has been ordered by a French court to pay damages to the organisers of a property conference for what has been deemed to be ‘parasitical’ behaviour. Basically, rather than buy a stand at the [...]
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Posted on November 30, 2009 by Nick
Did you know that the war in Iraq has so far cost fifteen times more than Africa’s entire debt to the West? Or six times more than it would cost to feed and educate every child on the planet for five years? These are the statistics posited by David McCandless’ “Billion-Dollar-O-Gram”, which I found thanks [...]
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Posted on September 7, 2009 by Nick
We had an interesting discussion in the office on Friday. We were editing some video interviews; as part of a project for which we’ve shot several (over 100) different individuals. We decided that one of the interviewees in the batch was a bit useless – but nobody could quite put their finger on why. He [...]
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Posted on August 1, 2009 by Nick
Right then – if you’re a businessy sort of person, you’ve probably been dragged kicking and screaming on holiday entirely against your will. You’d far rather be chained to your desk, because you think your company will fall apart without you. It won’t. To heal the pain, here are a selection of business/economics books which [...]
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Posted on July 27, 2009 by Nick
One of the things I have most enjoyed about the period in which I have been in business is the amazing way things have got easier to get off the ground. When I first left college, mobile phones were £500 each; and in any case, you couldn’t run a business from a mobile. It was [...]
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Posted on July 3, 2009 by Nick
As everyone will have noticed, it’s been a bit hot and sticky recently. This means several things: As Brits, we naturally fall into reminiscing about the good old days, when it just used to rain miserably We notice that it’s more likely to be sunny on weekdays and rain at weekends (this is in fact [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2009 by Nick
I remember writing about this last year – I can’t believe a whole year has gone by already! Anyhow, last Friday, I was back up at DeMontfort University, Leicester, to act as one of the judges in Fox’s Lair, which as you might have guessed is loosely based on TV series Dragon’s Den. Students on [...]
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Posted on March 6, 2009 by Nick
This month I was lucky enough to work with Neil Mullarkey, one of the founders of London’s famous Comedy Store, occasional panellist on QI and all round comedy genius. Neil is rarely on TV (I suspect of his own choice), but quite astonishing live. Anyhow, the relevance of this is that he’s conjured up a [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by Nick
Last week, my good friend Matt O’Neill hosted his regular event for internal comms professionals. He’d decided to try out a new format, which has been gaining some traction in recent years (although apparently it’s been around for ages). Called “Pecha Kucha”, the deal is: all presentations must be 20 slides long, and the speaker [...]
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