by Paul Davies | Jul 2, 2018 | Uncategorised
There are all sorts of psychological tricks that people resort to with customers but my advice to clients over the years has been to avoid them as they produce short term gains and long term pains. You will know most of the ploys – only three seats available at...
by Paul Davies | Jun 29, 2018 | Uncategorised
A first caveat is that I’m not sure it is possible to have any book that I completely disagree with. In fact I’ve read some extremely silly books but found some value in each of them – if only that the different perspective usually provokes some thought. As a...
by Paul Davies | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorised
This is a really important question because the answers – and there is more than one – point either to a a brilliant, forward-thinking business brain that has created a real force for betterment or a highly manipulative, cynical exploitation that is a...
by Paul Davies | Jun 2, 2018 | Uncategorised
I always had a soft spot for Aston Martins – ever since as a boy of about 8 or 9 Corgi brought out the James Bond Aston Martin DB 4 (it might have been a DB 5) and I saved up to get it. (Quite expensive in those days, as I remember, certainly compared with my...
by Paul Davies | Jun 1, 2018 | Uncategorised
With the launch and publication of Investigative Journalism Today: Speaking Truth to Power, we have entered an argument on one of the really important questions of our day, if you believe, as I do, that a properly free press is actually as important as the rule of law...
by Paul Davies | May 21, 2018 | Uncategorised
The more I thought about this question the more I realised that I don’t think there is a prescription for a sketch to be successful, rather it is the outcome that can be defined. There are components of successful sketches, but what makes a good sketch is its effect....
by Paul Davies | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorised
We’re living in a world where our trusted sources of news are being subverted in new ways that are silent – but all the more deadly because of that. There has been, for example, over the last eight years a quiet revolution at the BBC and the old BBC Trust, which...
by Paul Davies | May 14, 2018 | Uncategorised
I’ve two maxims that I think might take the pressure off you – and so often it is this self-generated pressure that creates the feeling that your mind is blank (and actually i can’t see that as a bad trait as long as you yourself can recognise it) and that you...
by Paul Davies | May 5, 2018 | Uncategorised
In its original form, Middlemarch was published in 8 bi-monthly instalments from late 1871, which eventually made a four decker novel – as opposed to the standard three decker, that is three volumes. It was received as one of the great novels almost from the...
by Paul Davies | Apr 30, 2018 | Uncategorised
In my consultancy life I worked hard on partnerships and was involved in a fairly significant programme called the Partnership Value Model – which was aimed at larger companies where partnership was required but was tricky or not working. If you think of the...
