Got my first comment today. Alas it was spam. Get a life. User and comments are filtered and spam is removed.
Category : Uncategorized
11th February 2008, Monday morning meeting 8:20 a.m.
“Morning Andy”, I enthused. “How was your trip to the States?”
“Morning Gordon. We’ll cover that in a moment. How was your weekend? Ready for all those unexpected challenges?” Andy strode across the room, his energy and stature belied his years – he must be due for retirement in a few years, but probably wouldn’t – lots of good years left! I responded to his light hearted question.
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Category : Feeling stuff, General feeling
Normally, I awake to the noise of the very first international flights lining up between 4 and 5am over SE London, some 20 miles from Heathrow. Today I awoke to the sunshine instead. 
I’m sure that when we’re on a plane we are all too excited about where we are going or coming back to that we don’t consider the noise polluton we contribute to. At least for a few days, the millions of people under the flight path will have sounder sleeps and cleaner air, and the roads around the airports are quiet.
It’s also an ideal day or two to sell an airport-affected house, which is exactly what my parents are doing, having put their place on the market 3 days ago….
Category : Book notes, Thinking stuff
Some notes on “One up on Wall Street”, by Peter Lynch
Chapter 1
Introduction: “The Goal”
“I get the gut hunch that none of us here has anything more than a witch doctor’s understanding of the medicine we’re practising”.
Goldratt, E. & Cox, J., (1993) The Goal (2nd Ed.), (Aldershot, Gower), p35
What is the goal of a company? Many suggestions have been put forward, including maximising profit, sales and/or market share. Particular industries may favour one over another, each “goal” requiring particular metrics to monitor progress. And because these measurements give a degree of certainty, many managers assume that they must be addressing the issues.
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