Advice To Prime Ministers

When you proudly boast that you and your party hold the moral high ground, it is advisable to make sure that reality matches your proud boasts.

Being Unreasonable

When being reasonable has no effect, being unreasonable can be a most effective means for effectuating change and improvement in organisations and with individuals.

Self Assessment

Self assessment and analysis is a useful tool, public self assessment and analysis is not.

Call Centres

There is only one thing more annoying than having to use an outsourced, foreign based call centre and that is being put on hold by an outsourced, foreign based call centre.

Advice To Presidents

When you use your financial institutions and currency as a diplomatic weapon, don't be surprised when that policy revisits you to bite you in the arse in the form of a collapsing currency.

Advice To Prime Ministers

When you lose the data records of 25 million people, and put them at long term risk of identity theft and fraud, the time has come to step down.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Don't forget that you were responsible for HMRC for the last 10 years.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Prime Ministers who try to micro manage their cabinet colleagues, will find themselves micro managed out of office in a very short space of time.

Rocking The Boat

If the boat isn't rocking, then rock the boat.

Open Hands

Conduct your business affairs with "open hands", only when the other party does not reciprocate should you walk away.

Doctors

The "butchers' profession" should not sit in judgement on people's lifestyles.

Glory

Glory is fleeting, obscurity lasts forever.

Wars

Politicians start wars.

However, they don't finish them.

Gratification

Beware the lure of instant gratification, in the end you will become sensitised to life's simple pleasures and miserable; nothing will ever satisfy you.

Charts

Chart your own course in life, never let others try to guide you or blow you off course.

Enemies

Wish your enemies a long life, so that they may witness all your achievements and victories.

Cold Callers

Scum of the earth.

Rewards

Beware the phrase "rewarded by satisfaction", it means you are paid nowt.

Rest

An individual may rest, mankind should not.

Silence

Beware the company or businessman that becomes uncharacteristically silent, and does not respond to emails or phone calls.

Dining

The most effective discussions, and profitable deals can be held and concluded whilst dining.

The Rules For Wars About Oil

It's not about oil!