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Useful. Beautiful. Idealistic?

There is a fine line between having a vision and being an idealist: indeed, it can be so fine as to be invisible to others, as the following quote – from interior designer and TV personality Laurence...

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The Consequences of Busy-ness: Time Management and Mouth Management

Back in the 1970s, Shirley Conran famously thought that “life is too short to stuff a mushroom”. As a self-proclaimed Superwoman (the book is still in print), a certain fullness of diary was a natural...

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Adult Learning Week: How to make 3K(g) in the office kitchen in under an hour

As an organisation that could hardly get away with believing that learning is something that stops when you leave school or university, ASK is always proud and happy to support Adult Learners Week (as...

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To be really productive, we need to make friends not appointments

Although we read incessantly that social networks and anytime media are bringing sharing to the top of the agenda and people closer together, our experience doesn’t always chime in tune with the...

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Machines of Loving Grace, and the odd ghost …

I’ve always had a soft spot for the work of Adam Curtis, historian and film-maker. His BAFTA for The Power of Nightmares seemed richly deserved – it was a compelling piece of film-making arguing that...

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In the Psychometrist’s Chair: FIRO-B

In the previous episode in this series, I related the experience of completing the MBTI questionnaire and receiving facilitated feedback. But if MBTI is mostly about the individual, giving feedback on...

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Half-term reports from the University of Life

On his T Recs blog, Mervyn Dinnen, recently published a very touching post, Things I Learned From My Dad. His sign off was almost apologetic for blogging so personally, and hoping that his readers...

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“What are they afraid of?” or “If Kirkpatrick must go, let’s at least give...

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Franklin D Roosevelt There you go. Nothing like a well-worn cliché to kick off, and with the apparently imminent (again) collapse of the global financial...

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Faith, value and returns on investment

Like so many words that start with ‘f’ (fairness or federalism, for example), faith can be a topic that leaves some of us slightly twitchy. As a word, its roots are actually secular: it derives from...

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How Many Times Must I Tell You?

Being told something is generally the consequence of someone else’s desire to bring it to your attention – that there’s a deadline looming that you need to meet, that you need to be aware that a...

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