When it’s good to gossip
The most primitive way to try to look good is to make someone else look bad. Justin Cohen Let’s be honest most of us get a perverse satisfaction out of talking behind people’s backs. It makes us feel better about ourselves. But not only do we...Tell better stories
Ever tried to sell, persuade or teach and noticed your audience’s eyes glazing over? Perhaps you were in the audience and the presenter had just clicked on to the fortieth slide, you know the one I mean, the one with about twelve bullet points and a triple bar graph...Teach me – tell a story
You know those kids at school who didn’t have to work and got an A+, well I was the kid who had to work really hard for my D-. In our school if you weren’t good academically you had one other way to redeem yourself: sport. Unfortunately I had the eye-hand coordination...Recession-Proof your head
Earlier this year I started to feel business slip and then I saw that word in the papers – RECESSION! Looking at my mortgage payment I took in a deep breath and thought about two restaurant owners, John and Bill. John goes to a hospitality conference. Bill can’t make...The death of steve jobs
Death inspires the quest. Justin Cohen 1) The death of Steve Jobs. 2) How copper could save your life. The death of Steve Jobs A few weeks ago Apple briefly became the world’s most valuable company. It continues to be one of the...The true meaning of passion
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested. E. M. Forster We talk a lot about passion in the corporate world. If you want to get ahead you’ve got to be passionate. But assuming we’re not talking about more office romance, what does...Love your problems
Life is a series of problems: you are in one now, you’re just coming out of one, or you’re getting ready to go into another one. Rick Warren In this week’s edition: 1) Love your problems 2) Interview on 3Talk about my...The only way to change your life
You’ve heard it before, change is inevitable – except from a vending machine! What isn’t inevitable is whether we lead change, or change leads us. Charles Darwin didn’t say the strongest or fittest of the species will survive, he said those who most responsive...When agony is bliss
So you want to know how I am? Well that old rugby injury feels like I’ve been stabbed with a panga, I’m sure my boss is Adolf Hitler’s granddaughter, my immigration papers for Australia have been rejected and I’m stuck here in the hellhole they call South Africa. The...
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