May
22
2009
Life just gets more and more terrifying, doesn’t it? If you thought swine flu and climate change were scary, then gird yourself for the terror of a bank holiday weekend. If you’re planning to leave home, you’d better think again. Statistics show that you’re more than likely to “face delays” as you “brave the chaos”.
Of course, if you’re travelling by train, tannoy announcements apologising and offering pathetic excuses will only add to your misery › Continue reading
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Apr
4
2009
It was only about a week ago that the news was full of foreboding, doom, depression, debate on quantitative easing and pictures of Gordon Brown, frowning like a constipated puppy next to headlines about deficit forecasts. But now we have all been saved (again) apparently – or have we? Could it just be that very few of us – economists included – really understand any of the words being used to describe the present ‘global economic crisis’? › Continue reading
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Dec
12
2008
The Woolworths Superstore Playset – on sale now
I notice since I raised the alarm last week – about the world being under threat and everything – Gordon Brown claims to have saved it. But he hasn’t saved the Woolworths superstore.
I wonder what went wrong there. Could it have been they weren’t listening to the management consultants?
“We have seen nothing like this before.”
May be they did visit the site. But Woollies has been around a long time; their senior managers may not think of themselves as ‘downturn virgins’ and so must have assumed the report wasn’t for them.
May be what Woollies needed was some ‘thought leadership’. If only Logica worked with general stores. They offer “transversal corporate functions“. And who could argue with this statement?
2 comments | tags: business, downturn, Gordon Brown, thought leadership, Woollies, Woolworths | posted in Management consultants
