Written by Welcome to my review of the week.
1. MOST INTERESTING NEWS STORY
They have found out that it’s actually quicker to queue at the supermarket than go for self-service.
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2. BEST (BUSINESS) MOMENT
Two days in a posh hotel helping the board of Top Man at Barnsley House.
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3. BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT
Wearing Your Computer on Your Sleeve – the rise of wearable computers. That sounds fun, as does the new TVs that are only 3mm thick.
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4. BEST BUSINESS BOOK OR IDEA
I have just finished reading How To manage by Jo Owen, and Wilful Blindness by Margaret Heffernan. It’s clever stuff, and explains why we often ignore things when we know they’re wrong. I’ll post summaries as soon as I can.
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5. BEST MUSIC MOMENT
Slightly belatedly I got Whitesnake’s Forevermore album. It’s good old hairy rock.
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6. BEST OVERSEAS TRAVEL IDEA OR WORLD ISSUE
It has been -18 in Quebec this week. Ouch!
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7. BEST BIT OF BULLSHIT
“Let’s push the envelope and see what levers we can pull”.
Business people love pushing and pulling things, talking about energy, and generally getting involved in a range of hydraulic metaphors. It’s all gone off in this one. First of all we have pushing the envelope, which on first hearing doesn’t sound very hard – we can all do that. In fact, it turns out that the envelope in question comes from the pressure tolerance that fighter pilots can stand at enormous speeds, so that’s why macho managers like the phrase so much – not that they know where it comes from. Not content with breaking an airspeed record, this person wants to pull some levers as well. So there you have it. If you push some envelopes around a desk and pull a couple of levers, you’ll really be playing with the big boys.
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