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Motivation and Hercule Poirot

Laughter, they say, is the best medicine; and I find in the last few months my tastes have changed considerably in terms of the kind of films I want to watch: much less action and more gentle humour and thoughtfulness. I have discovered, to my surprise, the wonderful TV series of Hercule Poirot, starring David…

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Do we really believe in teams?

One of the mantras of most managers is that teams outperform collective individual performance. There is lots of research that substantiates that, and in any case it is summed up in that well-known poster acronym: T.EA.M., or Together Each Achieves More. Put another way: teams produce a synergy in which the net output is not…

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How Nothing Creates Performance and Beauty

I was with some friends the other day, including Ginny Richards, and she had just played the piano superbly well. We were discussing how it is that some people play the piano – or instrument or sing – so expressively, and others, who may be technically proficient, make it all sound so dead. There is…

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Three types of people

Someone once said that there were two types of people: people who divide the world into two types of people, and people who don’t! A brilliant paradox, but alas not wholly true, because there are three types of people, not two; it is as well to know these types because one of the most important…

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Being in hospital and finding perfection!

I have just come out of hospital after a 3 month stay, and truly one does not recommend hospital to anybody as a life choice! It’s great to be home and in recovery mode. That said, for the curious, odd things happen in hospitals just as they do in life, and occasionally you get that…

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