Full Disclosure I know many of the people involved in the issues described below and now and then have been privately helping JC formulate her arguments. World Scoop Today I spent some time in an impressive frontier territory, full of exotic geological formations and mysterious goings-on. Namely […]
Remember ADRg Ambassadors, a unique new British mediation and consultancy panel launched earlier this year? We are whirring away to excellent effect. Yesterday we were in Geneva giving a goodly number of international organisations some ‘taster’ training sessions to show the ADRg Ambassadors house-style, with a special focus this time […]
Just to alert my sprawling army of fans that I have a couple of notable public speaking engagements coming up. First, I open the proceedings for the Speechwriters Guild Leadership and Communication conference in Bournemouth on 17 September. Here’s the website – come along and hear a range of top-end […]
BBRU 280 is up at Redemption Blues. The host, Chameleon, loves to take these blog links on their merits (and, yes, many of them do have merits!) and mull over the ideas they prompt. Plus she has this excellent passage on the idea that we have too many consumerist ‘choices’: […]
Sigh. Another thoughtful and intelligent website to read: Big Questions Online. Try this one by Susan Jacoby: When my friend saw one of her favorite young Afghan-American women — a high school senior — weeping in the dining room, she asked what was wrong. “Oh, madam professor,” the girl replied, […]
Finally! The ‘feedback’ compilation arrives from a course I ran a few months ago for EU colleagues in Brussels on the general theme of Ethical Dilemmas in Diplomacy. Everyone is dutifully tasked to complete these forms at the end of a course. A bundle of these forms show trends. Were the […]
Part of next week will be spent giving some Speechwriting Training. One of the things I have been taught on my Mediation training is the technique of ‘reflecting back’. In other words, a good mediator (so it is said) is not one who shows ‘neutrality’ by being aloof and detached from […]
UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg offers this thought: All parents have a responsibility to nurture the potential in their children. I know how difficult it can be to find the time and the energy to help with homework at the end of a busy day. But if we give […]
On this site I have warned readers about the pernicious impact of the EU’s several attempts to limit working hours by law, especially in the UK National Health Service. See eg here. And here. My best friend happens to be an NHS consultant. He has warned me for years about […]
I was chatting to a senior oil executive the other day (as one does), and I asked how that vast multinational corporation ran its top speech-writing function. "Oh,we have the usual – a team of young speechwriters, which is what you need these days." Really? Why do you need young […]
