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The sad news of the death of a great and humble man came out overnight: Sir Nicholas, then a stockbroker, arranged for trains to carry Jewish children out of occupied Prague. Via BBC He, like others during the 1930s and World War Two period, took action at great personal risk
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There is an enormous amount of information and advice about creating a business plan for one's startup. The advice ranges from the necessity to prepare a traditional narrative form business plan document, to preparing a business model canvas, or using a business planning tool or app. There are
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Business Insider In large companies personality tests and similar instruments are often deployed to provide people with better insight into their own and team performance. Over the years I have participated in many of these - for example, Myers Briggs, DISC, Belbin Team Roles, Hermann Brain Dominance, 16PF, Big Five
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The biggest hurdle facing most startups is to stay in business long enough to be successful. If they accomplish this then they have the chance to turn into an 'overnight success' after many years of hard work. The numbers are against most new businesses. Many new businesses fail
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I don't do new year's resolutions since they're usually a flop by early in the new year. Instead, I pick a theme that will inform my thinking and behaviour (hopefully in positive ways) for the year. I've been thinking a lot about
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On this day I share the text of a speech given by the New Zealand Governor General The Hon Dame Silvia Cartwright from Wednesday, 25 April 2001: "Nga mate nga aitua ka tangihia e tatou i tenei wa. Haere. Haere. Haere. The dead, those we mourn, we lament them
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"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" These words from Horace have survived since ancient times. Yet more often nowadays we read it in other contexts like: or Wilfred Owen's excoriating Dulce et decorum est: "If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come
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To celebrate Caturday I give you Will Braden's award winning Henri 2, Paw de Deux... https://youtu.be/Q34z5dCmC4M?si=T_h3s19EswRbqA4j
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I don't think that many romanticise war too much these days. And there is something very poignant and compelling about seeing the fruits of war. In northern France and Belgium the unimaginable scale of loss wrought upon so many families in the great wars of the twentieth century
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This video of Dr Deming discussing the state of management in the US from 1984 is strangely prescient. I think this is rather important! Definitely worth watching and pondering for all of us ... [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehMAwIHGN0Y&w=420&h=315]
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Zooniversity is the home of one of my favourite animals online - Teddy Bear the porcupine -
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Each year, instead of making new year resolutions, I pick a theme for the year. That way when I get sidetracked (as often happens) I can simply return to the theme. Also with a theme there are often many different things I can do to support it. This year my