Rushford

Back from a lovely weekend of multiple barbecues at Amanda Flood’s (amazing) new place in Norfolk and my own back garden. Schweet.

Wettzlegion and funny small world

So a note by Jonny with a sensible question (which I paraphrase as “why don’t we celebrate people who make a lot of money after having done socially aware work, as well as the other way round”) leads me to a site, Careershifters, which I am fairly...

Network recruitment

We use friends and family to recruit staff as often as possible–it certainly keeps costs down for a small company. We’re not quite YouTube, yet.

Don’t buy Green and Blacks

Still not sure about Fairtrade, but buying Green and Blacks is certainly out of the question now: a) sold out to Cadbury’s, b) non-Fairtrade, c) I instinctively dislike the CEO.

Flip charts

How to make the most of flip charts. We do a lot of this, especially post-it notes on a larger piece of paper (often called “brown paper” in consulting circles).