Rules For Success? – Remember
Never forget anything! You never know when it might be useful.
[Health and Safety]
Rules For Success – The Last Rule
Once my next door neighbour, who was a very experienced soldier and a Colonel in the Royal Engineers said.
There is only one rule in war. Burn all rule books, but not the instruction manuals.
Bringing an idea to market is a difficult and sometimes very painful process and there is no surefire blueprint for success.
It Pays to Go By Bus
Steve Whiteley used his bus pass to take up the offer of a free day’s racing at Exeter yesterday. Knowing nothing about horse-racing he put a single bet on the Tote Jackpot which cost him just £2. His was the only winning ticket and he won £1,445,671.20. The complete story is in the Independent.
Up The Organisation
Sometimes we forget those in the past, who did things well and whose words should be read by anybody, in government, management or business.
Such a person was Robert Townsend, who wrote the classic book on management, Up the Organization: How to Stop the Corporation from Stifling People and Strangling Profits (J-B Warren Bennis Series)
The book has now been republished and is probably more relevant today, than when he wrote it over thirty years ago.
Banning Cigarette Displays and Packaging
Whether this will have any affect on the level of smoking, I don’t know.
I have my doubts, as I think it will lead to an increase of counterfeiting and smuggling. Who’s to say it won’t be cool to smoke a pack with an exotic name on it? After all the Pope smokes Marlboro.
Seriously though, we need a ban on smoking in any vehicle and especially at bus stops. The latter particularly annoys me, especially when it’s raining.
The Anonymous Widower 