Posted on June 29, 2009 by Nick
I want to tell you today about a great colleague and friend of mine, Matt O’Neill, who now runs a cracking communications company, Modcomms (if you run change management or corporate communications programmes, do get in touch with him – he is absolutely first class).
We have given each other advice, work and contacts for many [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2009 by Nick
I’m a writer. I do words, innit. Pictures and graphics, however, are a magical world, into which my clumsy fingers have no right to delve. Still, I do occasionally have to mess about with photos, and luckily there is now a plethora of online graphics tools which mean I don’t have to buy expensive photo-editing [...]
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Posted on April 20, 2009 by Nick
I spent some of this sunny weekend stretched out in the lovely park over the road from my house, with a good book. A very good book, in fact: journalist Misha Glenny’s “McMafia”, a global investigation into organised crime. Whilst Glenny tells a ripping story with great style, there is an undertone of despair in [...]
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by Nick
I’ve been thinking about tackling this head on for some time.
Nobody likes taking about redundancy, because it’s such a god-awful unpleasant experience. But this week alone, the job loss tally has been startling, so let’s not hide under the duvet a moment longer.
Before I give you my advice (whether you want it or not); let [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2009 by Nick
Woohoo!
I am of course as excited as a five-year-old because it’s snowing. Not just the dribbles of a slushy excuse for snow we usually get here in London, but proper settled above-your-shoes snow. It’s the first time it’s looked like Christmas in at least five years.
Being the owner of a modest 4×4 gas guzzler, I [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by Nick
Crumbs! It’s only Wednesday and already there’s drama aplenty!
Yesterday, our office was broken into. Luckily, we were fully alarmed, linked through to the local police station etc.; and therefore no damage was done, apart from a very broken window.
Lesson 1: there are scallywags on the loose - and all this credit crunching is going to see [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by Nick
Welcome back to a shiny new year!
I hope you had a relaxed and enjoyable Christmas with those you love.
I also hope that if, like me, you commute into work, you’re coping with the unpleasant shock of an early start, a 6% rise in train fares, and all the usual excuses!
But enough of all that- down [...]
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Posted on December 1, 2008 by Nick
I’ve held off ranting about the VAT cut until now, because I wanted to speak to a few other entrepreneurs, to see what they think. So: the results are in, and here is the news…
Firstly, I was on my way home at 11.45 last night, and couldn’t fill the car up with petrol because all [...]
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