Never forget these 3 things about libel: 1 It does not matter what you meant to say, or who you meant to write about. The meaning of what you say is not up to the writer etc. It is determined by thinking what the right-minded reader would make of it. 2 However small your reference Read More
Month: October 2012
Savile not the story: Haiti, the UN and cholera is
What’s the biggest news story of the week? Obviously Savile’s systematic sexual attacks on the youth of Britain. Unseen by those great British institutions: the BBC and the NHS, as well as the Prison Service. Not. News editors in many media are vying for what they can say new about Savile. Now it’s the BBC’s Read More
5 universal top tips for better writing
The rules for good writing are the same pretty much wherever you go. I’ve just been working with a group of writers in Poland and I was curious to see if the same rules that I would use in English would also apply to Polish. Well it seems they do. I am reliably informed that Read More
Managing up and down: Part 2
Here’s another thought about managing and reporting up and down to go with my top 10 tips of last week: When reporting up or down tell people what you’ve got, not what you’ve done. So many people report up by telling people what they’ve done rather than what they have achieved. We don’t want the Read More
Reporting up and down: 10 top management tips
Here’s my top tips for reporting up and down. Reporting up: you and your team may seem like just a cost centre to those you report to, and any request for additional funds or other resources may seem to them a reduction in profits. And those above you may come from a different backgound from Read More