Binge Thinking – Blogging for the mindful...
Welcome to our blog. This is an openly available weblog – or online diary – where the Go MAD Team can share their views. It gives you a unique peek inside the thinking of the people in our business. We trust it opens your mind to some topical issues of the day. Enjoy!
Ten Ways to spot a great future thinker aged eight - 01 Dec 2008
Recently I saw an article on the BBC news website, prompted by Lewis Hamilton’s FI championship win, entitled: ‘Ten ways to spot a future F1 champ aged eight’. It basically centred on the fact that he was a promising Go Kart champion at eight years old.
Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela - 28 Oct 2008
As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday next week he has given an interview to Time Magazine to summarise his top 8 leadership lessons in life.
They are mostly practical. Many of them stem directly from his personal experience.
As Time says: “All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place”.
HR Business or People Discipline? - 09 Oct 2008
Getting past the depressing front pages of this week’s Personnel Today (‘credit crunch’ ‘500,000 jobs to go’ etc.) my eye was drawn to an article on page 4 entitled: ‘CIPD vows to raise HR profile by working with government’. In the article (by Guy Logan) it says that ‘Jackie Orme, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), has pledged to work with the government to improve the standing of HR professional in the boardroom.’
If I Was A Banker - 19 Sep 2008
I hit the pile of mags on my desk today (whilst my computer was being upgraded so I had to tear myself away) and really loved the articles in Growing Business (www.growingbusiness.co.uk) . They have a new columnist Oli Barrett who writes a sort of extended blog on topics that take his interest.
Kung Fu Panda - 05 Sep 2008
My Brother asked me to look after my nephew one weekend over the summer (what summer I hear you cry) well exactly – what do you do with a five year old when it’s chucking it down with rain outside? I made the mistake (or so I thought) of asking him what he wanted to do and his reply was: “I want to go and see Kung Fu Panda Auntie Suze”. “Oh no” I thought – another animated film that I have to sit through. But he is a lovely kid and feeds me white minstrels throughout our trips to the movies so let’s do it!
