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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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Now That Monday is Gone

 

Let us not worry about what happened on Monday it is past now.  Tuesday is a new day, so make that difference just for you and those that are special in your life.

Have a great Tuesday and all the other days and don’t forget to laugh out [...]

What Does Your Organisation Value?

Is it Time for Change?

It is sometimes said “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” but it might be best to break it.  Having lots of policies just to keep the employees in line – my question is why?

If 90% of your team are working 55-70 hours a week and you [...]

Happy Results from your HR Department.

What gets Measured gets Done

Why not change the title of the HR Director or HR Manager to the Director or Manager of Happiness.

Are they not responsible for the happiness of the people within an organisation?

Do we not hear that they hold the role accountable for Human Resources?

Where you worked [...]

Recruitment Panels – Is your Company Boring or Creative?

Have you the right selection panel?

While tutoring a programme yesterday to group of business professional it reminded me of a post I published early in 2010 about being creative in your selection process.

Organisations when they need to recruit employees often select the wrong individuals or panels to conduct the interviews.  If [...]

Just Dance

Make the Choice

Life may not be the party we hoped for…  but while we are here we might as well dance – unknown

Remember, happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think. – Dale [...]

Remember When

You hand wrote a letter to a friend You had to walk down the street to the phone box to make a telephone call You walked across a dance floor to ask a girl to dance with you You stood up and offered your seat to a lady You made someone smile by [...]

The 5 States of Success

Brendan Foley

WOW! It’s finally here! It is with the greatest pleasure that I have been asked to invite you to join Brendan Foley for the launch of his new book The 5 States of Success at 6:30pm on Tuesday 6th of September, in Dubray Books, Blackrock Shopping Centre, Co Dublin Ireland.

100% [...]

Message from a Hostel –Parking Meters

Time is Up

Alistair what is all this studying you are doing?  Nora it is for the exam I have to take later today for a job with the city council.  Did you know Nora, that Holger George Thuesen and Gerald A. Hale designed the first working parking meter, the Black Maria.  And [...]

Just Having a Coffee

I was sitting having a good old chat and a coffee when all of a sudden we heard bang bang bang bang, two seconds later another round of shots. We then started to see people running towards us and in different directions away from the sound of the shots.  My first thoughts were, a [...]