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Coyote, Roadrunner, and Raising the Bar in Presentation Skills

You know that scene where Coyote is chasing Roadrunner and Roadrunner hides behind a rock so Coyote goes right past him and hell for leather off the edge of the cliff? Well he’s fine, of course, until he looks down.

That’s when he realises he’s running in mid air. He plummets to his doom….Until the next time. Read more

New Year, New Job?

It’s that time of year when people make resolutions galore and then seem to break them within weeks, if not days (hours???) of making them.

Be honest, how long did the ‘Give up alcohol’ one last?

If number one on your list is to get a new job that’s a biggie – especially in today’s difficult climate.

You may or may not achieve it, but if you do you want to be sure you’re not jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. How awful would it be to give up one job for another that made you even more miserable after the honeymoon period was over?

So what’s the secret to a happier working life?

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All of a Twitter about Knowledge Transfer

So it seems that Twitter is just a frivolous development not really worthy of our attention and surely no serious person would bother with it. But then that’s what they said about the telephone too…

Which got me thinking. When I worked in a science environment we had lots of really clever people (it was rocket science) and one of the problems was that they got old and retired – how inconsiderate. Succession planning and knowledge transfer was a nightmare. All that knowledge went with them so we ended up having to bring them back in when they should have been enjoying a well earned retirement. We used to daydream about being able to slurp all the knowledge out of their heads with a psychic vacuum cleaner.

And it’s not just in science either.

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