by Tom | May 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Useful guide to getting presentations right. I have to confess that a few slides at my last conference didn´t pass the squint test and several were bullet-only. But this is fixable, of course.
by Tom | May 12, 2009 | Uncategorized
Lovely start to this piece: Management theory came to life in 1899 with a simple question: "How many tons of pig iron bars can a worker load onto a rail car in the course of a working day?" I also learned a politer version of Waz´s POMA analysis...
by Tom | May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
Fascinating quote from Keynes in a McK article which sadly descends into a sales pitch for scenario planning (not that I´m against it, just the sales pitch).The inhabitant of London [in August 1914] could order by telephone,sipping his morning tea in bed, the...
by Tom | May 1, 2009 | Uncategorized
In common with many others, we are loving Pseudo Names in Private Eye. My favourite to date is this one: Sir, We believe that this column has gone as far as it can.ANNE DANNOWD.N. DISNEREANNE-ZOE IPHASEDEE FEIN-AL-KHURTAN Just brilliant. My contribution (thanks to...
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
How on earth do people have enough time to do any one of these things on Twitter, let alone all of them? I suppose I don´t do much in the way of conversation via my blog posts (although maybe I should).
by Tom | Apr 22, 2009 | Uncategorized
Neat idea to get related images based on the image, not text. It doesn´t quite work as well for shoes as does Zappos. Their new "what´s being bought and where" map is brilliant. Another nice idea is to use Google to predict the trend of values...
