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Selection of Poetry composed by Mel Clifford. Additional poems kindly provided with the permission of the authors.

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Never Lose the Child Within - Your World of Business.

What you create in your life will either support you or hinder you in what you want to achieve. Like the culture you create and support within your organisation, it can make the Company great or destroy it – everyone has a part to play including you. Why do we lose the child within us when we enter the world of Business?

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55,000 new jobs per year no excuses please

It's your Job – so deliver no excuses

One Tuesday this week I made comments about an article I read very recently on leadership and the pressures it carries and what one should do published in the Globe and Mail Newspaper.  As I stated in my post it was very basic stuff.  I [...]

Leadership requires courage not excuses

Step out from the others

“How to stop the worrying and learn to love the job”- article written by Wallace Immen for the Globe and Mail daily newspaper.  The article was based on an interview with Graham Jones who is a Psychologist and Leadership Consultant.  The article was mostly around the pressure of [...]

There are always two sides

There is always light – just look for it

I met this fantastic German lady who was all of 85 years old.  She arrived in Canada in 1947 and was now happily living here for the past 63 years. In our conversation I said you must have been in Germany during the Second [...]

Watch and learn my Friend

Bring it on – light me up

Just this week Cuba announced it will lay off over 500,000 state employees, yes 500,000.Why?  They need to take action now to support and save their economy. The Government intend to move more into the free-market and therefore are laying off those workers who are less [...]

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Message from a Hostel - Why do we need a Director Role

I'm the Director

After writing about the importance of having a clear direction last week I think Nora got the meaning of this a little lopsided.  “Well Alistair you can go to a show on your own that you would like, I will Nora but why can I go to this one with [...]

Depends how you read it

What does it say to you?

Do we have to leave our own country to notice individuals who are labelled “down and out” or is it that we are so use to seeing people where we live and we become oblivious to the problem.  I must say that I have just started to [...]

Message from a Hostel - Directions

Which way do we go?

I think it’s this way Nora and if we take the next right we should be Ok, Alistair how many times have we followed your directions?, most of the time Nora and what’s your point, well Alistair how many times have we taking the wrong direction, all of [...]

In the Morning Kitchen

The start of something great

Here is a beautiful poem written by a young lady called Shannon Azzato Stephens. Shannon is currently studying in Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh USA.  It was just published in Emprise Review, July 2010.  On  recent trip to Ireland I had the pleasure of meeting Shannon. She told [...]