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Getting Sweaty - My First Bikram Yoga Experience.
Q: How do you take a 3000 year art form, freely practiced by millions and turn it into something new, proprietary and lucrative? A: Simplify it and add heat exhaustion. I love food. Not in a pig-li...
Aerlingus Rocks or Linchpins are like Unicorns or 'How Mike Almost Missed His Flight'
Ok, so I know I've bitched about the quality of Aer Lingus food in the past and maybe also about their tardiness. But, you know, when it really counts, Aer Lingus absolutely deliver. Above and way be...
Planning is good, Execution is better.
A Little Secret I have to admit something, please keep it quiet. Come closer, I'll whisper... "LATELY, I HAVE BEEN ALL PLAN AND NO EXECUTION!!" Its a damn nuisance, every time I am about to get goin...
Managing Mirrors
It was a great pleasure to facilitate the recent Agile Coach Camp USA (twitter hashtag #accus) open space. During my regular walkabout to ensure all the sessions were happily bubbling along, I happe...
Whose stepping stone are you?
'If I have seen further it is only by standing on the shoulders of giants' - Sir Issac Newton I have been thinking about this for a few weeks and it has been truly humbling. No one ever got anywhere ...
BBC and its biased reporting
I have been following the BBC reporting of the Israeli killing of 9 activists on board the Gaza blockade busting flotilla.9 people were shot and killed by Israeli forces. The Israelis claim there were...
Some nerve.
Peter Mandelson, more recently Lord Mandelson , an unelected cabinet minister in Gordon Brown's waste of space Labour government today announced the row over the sell off of the UK Royal Mail business...
Is Obama the new Jesus?
Barack Obama made history. That is undisputed and worthy of celebration.But what is this fiasco about the order in which world leaders get to visit him?On 5th Feb, the BBC reports that Tony Blair met ...
Mama was right
When my mum called Tony Blair an 'out and out' liar and his administration 'morally bankrupt' , I was a little reticent to join in and thought for a second that she might be wrong. Blair and his Labou...
Broke in a broken system
With spectacular size comes spectacular impact. The collapse of the global financial system is just that - spectacular. I searched for exactly what the 'Global Financial System' and was (un?)reliably ...