Everything Politicians Touch Turns to Waffle – That’s Official!

Posted by on Mar 30, 2009 in education, learning | 0 comments

As a trainer and tutor, it’s commonplace for me to acknowledge that people learn in different ways.  (These are called learning styles in the jargon.)  They do this just because they are people, not robots or cogs in a bureaucratic machine.  This is not a difficult concept to grasp. Unless you’re a politician, that is. In a heart-breaking and logic-defying article,...

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Cutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 2)

Posted by on Feb 25, 2009 in business, positive psychology | 0 comments

Breaking news – Gordon Brown has become a personal development guru! I’ll have to watch out for my customers… In Cutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 1) I contrasted the advice of entrepreneur Sir David Tang with our Prime Minister Gordon Brown.  Tang urges small-but-optimistic thinking, whereas Brown preaches a kamikaze imprudent doctrine of spend, spent, spend. Now it...

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Cutting the Crap of Recession-Speak (Part 1)

Posted by on Feb 13, 2009 in business, positive psychology | 2 comments

I’ve just read the best article yet only article worth reading on the current recession. I’m no macro-economist, so I’ve found it hard to follow some of the more technical melodramatic discussions so beloved by the media.  How did this global economic tsunami downturn come about?  An over-inflated property market?  A housing crisis?  Banks too eager to lend?  Stock market...

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