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Throughout my life I have been fortunate enough to work within highly professional organisations that have allowed me to experience both the very best and the very worst in terms of leadership. These mixed experiences have shaped my own style of leadership, and to a lesser extent management, style. In […]

“It’s been a long time since I last sat down to write something more meaningful than a simple Facebook rant. It hasn’t been because I haven’t wanted to but sometime life gets in the way. I have been far too busy painting and even though my true love is writing, […]

I have written these blogs before. I don’t think however I have penned one with such a sense of overwhelming dismay. The scenes that are flashed across the various media sources today are hideous, an affront to humanity. There is more than shock reverberating in my head at yet another […]

I can’t remember the first time I kicked a football, and I cannot remember the moment I fell in love with sport. To my knowledge, it has always been there. A genetic gift from my father perhaps? He was not a sportsman though, but he loved sport, especially football. His […]

So here it is. The occasional Facebook rant that makes itself public is testimony to my lack of patience with the stupid, the banal or the arrogant.  A lot of what I write on FB though is very much tongue in cheek, penned to raise the occasional laugh or even […]

I put a request out via Facebook today, asking if anybody had any ideas what they would like for me to blog about, and as usual some of the ideas were very appealing. There will be another Room 101 for those who like the rants, there will be one on […]

“It is fitting I should write this today for it marks ten years to the day that my father died. I have written directly about, or referenced him, in a few articles on this site so apologise in advance but to write truthfully, in terms of emotion at least, you […]

Looking back allows you to see that some things in life are simply meant to be. You don’t appreciate that at the time, of course, there is far too much wood to see the trees, but hindsight allows you to see what actually was blatantly obvious. My grandfather died either […]

HUMAN NATURE In the last few days, in the stinging aftermath of the events that unfolded in France, the reaction of people has both bewildered and amazed me. Naivety on my part perhaps? Probably. I have always been fascinated by human behaviour, why we do the things we do, what […]

The WorkplaceSo let’s start with something that I think we can all agree on, should a man and woman, both doing the exact same job to the exact same standard be paid the same salary. Hands up if you said no? Thought not. OK then, what if a man and […]