I saw a picture on the internet of a tongue lolling greyhound who had been labelled “Jerry from HR” in the staff profiles of a particular group – and that started me thinking. That’s it! Dogs would be great as...
Category - Business
At some stage in the Covid restriction era, people in face to face meetings were all encouraged to sit as far away as possible from one another, like cockroaches scattering when someone turns on the light. This was helpful for...
A Shorten Humorless lunchtime interview with Mr Cryptic, a well known business tycoon famous for his economical use of food, money and words. SH: Welcome Mr Cryptic. I’d like to ask you a few questions about how you...
We all know the difference between off and on, or do we? Our washing machine, having finished the thankless task of removing smells and stains from my clothes, should be off, but it’s not truly off. It’s doing something...
As soon as I walked into my local electronics store, I started to feel something was very wrong. As I browsed the aisles of gadgets I overheard a salesman saying “Male subject, purple New Zealand t-shirt, arriving one minute...
Glatte. This features a heavy duty transparent glass bin. This proclaims to the neighbours that you have nothing to hide in your waste stream and that you are right up with the trendiest of garbage extraction trends. A large...
“Like the dinosaur, big-box stores have been getting steadily larger. That was handy for devouring smaller competitors, but not much use against insurmountably large and unavoidable problems like asteroids….” from...
What I am talking about is a piece of paper or a smartphone code that gives me a discount price. Voucher, coupon, whichever, whatever. Naturally there is a hierarchy in the world of vouchers as there is in the world...
I was about to go into my favourite coffee shop when I saw a strange sight across the road. What was that man doing rolling an office chair along the footpath towards the train station ? No, wait! As he trundled past me I...
To cut costs and boost profits, organisations must really consider the half-baked business model. This bleeding edge approach first stormed into consumer consciousness when half baked bread rolls appeared in the supermarket. The...