The book that The Guardian calls: “The grandaddy of all management books”. How to win friends and influence people by Dale Carnegie. I am amazed that there are people who haven’t yet read this slim volume. Published first in 1937 it is as relevant today as it was then. I regret that I didn’t botherContinue reading “The Weekend Read: 1. How to win friends and influence people.”
Category Archives: Business
The Monday Morning Quote #1
Even though I didn’t get around to publishing until Tuesday! This seemed particularly apt this week for a number of reasons. It comes from Henry David Thoreau’s classic book “Walden” “I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man,Continue reading “The Monday Morning Quote #1”
Time Management never meant so much.
As a coach one of the major things that I help my clients deal with is time management. It’s something that I read about and research in order to be able to keep abreast of the newly labelled science or art of GTD. Or is it Emperor’s New Clothes? I came across this lecture byContinue reading “Time Management never meant so much.”
Another Travelodge
Travelodges Great idea no fuss, minimal need to interact with other travelers, familiar, easy to book, lots of them. Downside? Soulless, no idea where you are when you wake up during the night, the ones on M-way services condemn you to the adjacent food (or none as here in Washington) the choice being a severalContinue reading “Another Travelodge”
GDC having its say – 2
I must own up to having mixed feeling about the practice of “facial aesthetics”. When I examine my motives I realise they have arisen from having a close family interest matters of the skin here & here concern that some young dentists were seeing it as a panacea for gaps in their appointment books. itContinue reading “GDC having its say – 2”
GDC having its say – 1
Why is it that whenever the GDC clarifies situations I am left with more questions? They have made a couple of recent statements on whitening and facial aesthetics. On whitening. Thank goodness some sense at last, hygienists and therapists will be allowed to carry out tooth whitening. Not only that, but nurses will be ableContinue reading “GDC having its say – 1”
Three Dimensions of Photography
I am getting some new photographs and I went to see an old friend from BNI, John Moore. I knew that John was a talented photographer who, as he used to say in his one minute address, “doesn’t do weddings”. What I hadn’t realised was that his partner, Heidi, is also excellent with a cameraContinue reading “Three Dimensions of Photography”
The Incisal Edge 