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!
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!
Let's lobby for a new Bank Holiday - 21 Aug 2008
Driving to work this morning, I heard Chris Moyles and crew celebrating the fact that this is a bank holiday weekend. They then put an immediate dampener on it. No, not due to a terrible weather forecast – evidently it may be OK – no, due to the fact that next Monday will signal the last UK bank holiday of the year. Well, until Christmas anyway.
So, back to the mic in the loo story - 11 Aug 2008
Three of our team recently returned from a two week to the States where they presented to over 150 enthusiastic and welcoming attendees. It is safe to say that the team also loved it even when Jules managed to forget that she had a super small, super powerful, mic attached to her shirt and went off for a ‘comfort break’. We don’t need to go into details, but all the delegates gathered in the room found out exactly what kind of comfort Jules was looking for until her colleague Jo burst into the Ladies restrooms shouting ‘Jules stop. You are miked up and live!’.
No time to think - 03 Aug 2008
Well, I’ve hit the ground running as usual on a Monday and find myself, at 2.30pm in the afternoon just catching my breath from ploughing through my to do list. In short, I’m having a cuppa and actually ‘thinking’ about stuff, not least the bumper packed two-day away team event we all enjoyed on Thursday and Friday of last week (more musings in later episodes…).
Hot Spots - 14 Jul 2008
I’m back from holiday, where along with a novel I read one of the many business books that sit on my coffee table at home willing me to find the time to read them. This one was well worth the effort. Hot Spots is by Professor Lynda Gratton who undertook the original research as part of an extensive academic study. Consequently it is packed with more detail and rigorously researched case studies than most business books I read.
