There is a HiPPO in the room. It is big, loud, ugly and everybody is doing what it wants. The HiPPO is the Highest Paid Persons Opinion. You can spot HiPPO’s quite easily, they are expressed forcefully, everybody nods and agrees with them and they are always the last thing said. A HiPPO is a […]
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Zombies will do Wonders for Your Motivation
I have just wasted 2 weeks of my life playing “Plants versus Zombies”, the worlds most foolish computer game. The premise is at best dubious, I grow plants in my garden and these protect my house from an onslaught of brain eating zombies, yet I am totally addicted. I’m 44 years old, I should know […]
Let’s Talk About Me
Words are powerful things; they can engage, they can sting, they can excite and they can bore. The impact words have on people is amazing, even every-day words provoke a gut reaction. Try these two definitions for size: Self-centred ~ chiefly concerned with one’s own interest Altruistic ~ disregarding one’s own welfare over that of […]
How to Miss the Point
A tragedy On the 14th December 2012 in Newtown Connecticut, Adam Lanza shot and killed his mother. He then drove to Sandy Hook Elementary School where he murdered twenty-six children and six adults. Finally he committed suicide by shooting himself in the head. Twenty-eight senseless deaths. Wikipedia describes the what happened that day. It was […]
Hot Chocolate Tastes Better in an Orange Mug
That is not a random provocative statement (though I am guilty of those on occasion) it is a scientifically proven fact. Charles Spence, of the University of Oxford and Betina Piqueras-Fiszman from the Polytechnic University of Valencia have statistically validated it. They served a group of people the same hot chocolate in white mugs, cream […]