Isn’t it strange how a simple and fairly uncontroversial comment can spark the liveliest of discussions?
Here’s the September forecast: the start of the month will be bright and summery, but this warm spell will be followed by windy, showery weather, which by the end of the month will turn stormy, with...
With a distinctive roar, six Harley Davidson motorbikes swung into the car park of the McDonald’s restaurant where I was meeting with one of our franchisees.
Later this month, I will be heading up to Manchester to attend the grad-uation ceremony at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (MMUBS), where I have the privilege of being a visiting...
Put it in the diary. Friday 17 June could be the happiest day of 2011 – the day when a wellbeing equation developed by ‘Blue Monday’ psychologist Cliff Arnall potentially delivers its most positive...
Benjamin Franklin once said that “at 20 years of age, the will reigns; at 30, the wit; and at 40, the judgement”.
Elk Grove Village, Illinois is a place of about 35,000 people northwest of Chicago. It is a charming village recognised as one of the US's 'top 50 fabulous places to raise your family' and which can...
What do you want to do when you leave school?' This is a question that is guaranteed to strike dread into the heart of most teenagers. But for 14 year-old Paul the answer was easy: "I want to be in a...
"The customer isn't a moron - she's your wife." It's not the sort of thing you expect to hear from an advertising executive in the 21st century. But, as anyone who has watched TV series Mad Men will...
Having built a successful career in marketing, a friend of mine decided a year or so ago to retrain as a teacher.
The first work experience I had was at Ogden's Empire Stores in Wigan. My first job was peeling the prices off jars of jam, cleaning any residue from the sticky labels and applying a new - higher -...
Academy award-winning British writer and director Christopher Hampton famously observed that "asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs"....
