Just a public hurrah to some special people who did something big in order to make a difference in this world. Well done Steve Clarke & the Silicone Comrades Well done Jonathan Whitaker
Category: SageMind
US bailout – 700Billion is a designer number.
At last things are starting to make sense! Why $700 billion? Why not $4.65 billion? Or $1.17 trillion? Gus Faucher, director of macroeconomics at Moody’s Economy.com., said, “It’s a number that is designed to reassure the financial markets that the government is serious about getting the financial markets back into shape.”. Yes, but is there…
Remember when we were Rome
What with the modern “reliance culture”, the banking crisis of post 2008 and all the environment issues we seem to be facing we often don’t realise that Corporate Social Responsibility and the Environment form part of a larger civilisation issue. Civilisation has evolved to become it’s own huge industrial challenge and lest we forget, the…
Creativity and Options
“Managing a creative process is about avoiding doing things yourself unless it’s clear you are the best person to do it. Then you go for it.” – Mark Charmer 2008 P.S. It’s really cool when you know the people who provide your quotes – thanks Mark
Go ahead be unreasonable!
Progress is due to the unreasonable person. The reasonable person seeks to adjust to the world. The unreasonable person seeks to change it. – George Bernard Shaw
Not much change.
“A newspaper has three things to do. One is to amuse, another is to entertain and the rest is to mislead.” — Ernest Bevin British Foreign Minister 10 Feb 1946 Spotted while they were calibrating the LHC at CERN
Well done Team GB
The 2008 Olympics were a triumph for everyone. As a coach it is so amazingly gratifying to see what can be done when you allow an investment in positivity to unleash itself. China showed the world a spectacle that shut even the most hardened British cynic up. It’s all about doing our best – all…
The futility of Arguing
“I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.” – Dave Barry