Recent Blogs by David Taylor
Published 17/12/2007
Psychologists, academics and experts all agree – when we make a commitment to achieve something, to ourselves, we have under 10% chance of making it happen – of seeing it through. When w...
Published 26/11/2007
I seem to be receiving more and more of these – You know the sort of thing: "Send this to 10 people within an hour of reading it or you will receive bad luck"It is a form of bullying, that is ...
Published 19/11/2007
I was travelling around the UK last week – by train
One moment of Customer Heaven, One of Customer Hell – please share your experiences of these two extremes – on this new thread ...
Published 16/11/2007
Can someone, anyone, please get Spain's King Juan Carlos and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez together, in a room, so they can resolve their uncalled for, and unneeded, dispute.Any volunteers?
I s...
Published 15/11/2007
Just a few short years ago this headline could have meant an invasion, as anything else. Indeed, it was far more likely to have that meaning, or that of a rare, state visit, than its real meaning.Pa...
Published 14/11/2007
Last Sunday a 26 year old, Gabriele Sandri, lost his life after being shot by a policeman, apparently by accident.It was a tragic death and our sympathies go out to his family. Regardless of the rig...
Published 13/11/2007
The biggest challenge to the future of democracy, and leadership, in Pakistan, is ensuring that President Pervez Musharraf has an alternative to further death and destruction. Yes, I know the present ...
Published 12/11/2007
Yesterday was Remembrance Day when our thoughts turned to the past – let us remember all those nations, citizens and human beings that are at “war” right now. I write “war...
Published 11/11/2007
Guru : Warren Bennis
Key Book : Managing People is like herding cats
Key Message : Leaders are made, not born
Why so guru? An academic that even I can understand
Books sold: Not so many - but bo...
Published 10/11/2007
Guru : Anthony Robbins
Key Book : Unlimited Power
Key Message : You can achieve anything you choose
Why so guru? Massive following, one of the best speakers in the world
Books sold: Millions ...