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Day Three Hundred and Twenty Three - the polite period
Somewhere between 3 1/2 and 5 I've noticed, based upon the rearing of my own kids, that London based privately educated sprogs become...

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Nov 13, 2024
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Day Three Hundred and Twenty - Nursery Mums
Being twenty years older than practically every other parent at our nursery, I find their concerns a little predicable. Of course, their...

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Nov 10, 2024
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Knowing your ambition
One of the many executive coaching bloggers on LinkedIn posted recently a question that actually got me thinking about myself for a...

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Oct 25, 2024
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The reality of Alumni events
We had a big do recently in our swanky offices for the Alumni of our firm. It was quite instructive as to the effectiveness of our sales...

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Oct 24, 2024
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Day Three Hundred and Nine - digital transformation
For quite a while in the consultancy world, the concept of digital transformation took hold and became popular as a phrase. Personally, I...

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Oct 20, 2024
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Day Three Hundred and Three - party season
It's that time of the year again when the Nursery crowd have a rush of birthday parties. For the parents it's a necessary ordeal - the...

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Oct 13, 2024
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Day Two Hundred and Ninety Nine - British Values
This week another 2 aspirants for the Tory leadership will be knocked out I think. They all seem to be trying to appear more right wing...

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Oct 7, 2024
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Day Two Hundred and Ninety Seven - force for peace
The US election is nearly upon us, yet again, and the Americans are shooting at their candidates, yet again. Not very well. Donald Trump...

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Oct 5, 2024
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Two Hundred and Ninety Six - the XXX files
I don't really read books any more. Not unless they've got pictures. And mostly everyone I know appears to be the same. Reading is more...

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Oct 4, 2024
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Good question
Quite a lot of businesses are going through restructuring at the moment, which can cause anxiety and tension in both the management team...

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Sep 30, 2024
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Two Hundred and Eighty Nine - journals
Had a bit of a boost this week from Isabel Berwick in the Financial Times who plugged this blog in her regular 'Working It' piece...

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Sep 28, 2024
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Two Hundred and Eighty Six - impulse control
There's been a big blow up this week in the Hampstead Nursery parents' Whatsapp. The 3 yos don't want to goto Nursery, some of the...

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Sep 25, 2024
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Two hundred and eighty four - obituary
I think this is my first obituary blogtoon. Today I read that Tony Soper had died and vaguely remembered that I knew the guy. As I read...

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Sep 21, 2024
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Misuse of the word indiscriminate
I guess there are a lot of things you could disagree with the head of a terrorist organisation like Hezbollah. Needn't go into them all,...

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Sep 20, 2024
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Two Hundred and Eighty Two - noisy neighbours
A month or so ago I was infuriated by a party on a neighbour's balcony at 1am. Noisy teenagers enjoying themselves - I mean, for crying...

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Sep 16, 2024
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Two Hundred and Eighty - Alumni do's
You've probably gathered that the diet has taken a back seat during summer. Less of a back seat, more of an order to get out of the car...

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Sep 14, 2024
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Two Hundred and Twenty Five - molesters
There's been a bit of traffic on the Nursery mums and dads whatsapp this week about where to send the sprogs during the summer break...

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Aug 9, 2024
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One Hundred and Ninety Seven - End of term
Loki's final day of Nursery today, so I prepared a cartoon gift for the 4 teachers as a blatant self-promotion exercise masquerading as...

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Jul 12, 2024
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One Hundred and Seventy Four - Marilyn moment
When one hears the term 'a Marilyn moment' the first thought for many isn't her philosophical declarations on the future of global...

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Jun 19, 2024
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One Hundred and Sixty Nine - vagility
Been a lot of interest since my LinkedIn post about virtually nothing one Saturday in June concerning my reference to the buzzword Vagile...

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Jun 14, 2024
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