Category Archives: Culture

Greenhouses and Facts about Marquee Hire

Constructing a greenhouse could be considered similar to constructing a marquee. Planning an event can lead to hair pulling, teeth grinding and high blood pressure. Finding ways to simplify the organization and planning of that special event can make it … Continue reading

Culture, Marquee, News

THE ORIGIN OF WEALTH

Going solely on the basis of a write-up in the Sunday Times yesterday,The Origin of Wealth looks worth a read. Eric Beinhocker, a senior fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute, reckons that the economy is a “complex adaptive system”. (Apparently) … Continue reading

Culture, Finance, News

TOP OF THE HOFFS

Sociologist Zygmunt Bauman says that “We have never been so free and so unable to change things” – and David Hasselhoff fans have been listening. They want to get their hero to number 1, but realize that they’ve got a … Continue reading

Culture, Democracy, News

COLLABORATION NATION

What’s going on with public services? On the one hand they’re supposed to join up and become more holistic, on the other they seem to be becoming ever more fragmented and harder to govern. Schools, for instance, are getting wide … Continue reading

Culture, Employment

HOW TO RECONNECT YOUNG PEOPLE AND ORGANISATIONS

The pamphlet, published with Orange, argues that young people and organisations are struggling to meet each others needs – not because either lacks the ability or even inclination to do so, but because fundamentally they do not understand what each other … Continue reading

Culture, Employment, News

WHAT SHALL I READ ON MY SUMMER HOLIDAY?

So it’s just started to chuck it down. Lucky I’m off on my summer holidays in a couple of weeks (New Orleans and then on to Miami as it happens). I’m just beginning to compile my holiday reading and thought … Continue reading

Culture, Literature, News