Bravado

Those who display excessive bravado and indulge in machismo posturing are often the most fearful and weak.

Hearing vs Listening

People often hear, but rarely listen.

Pragmatism

Pragmatism needs goals.

Advice To Democrat Presidential Candidates II

Don't lie or "exaggerate" about your role in past peace processes or conflicts, these "exaggerations" will come back to bite you in the arse.

Question For The Democrat Party

Given that the two perspective Democrat presidential candidates are intent on tearing themselves apart, and splitting the party in two, it is clear that the Democrats have all but lost the presidential election before it has even been run.

Why does the Democrat party bother to involve itself in politics, given that it clearly has no wish to win?

Politicians

Beware the politician who says that a policy/idea will "never" be implemented. He/she actually means that it will be implemented at the earliest opportunity.

Quality

Some things are best not done if you feel you won't do them that well.

Advice To Recruitment Consultants

Avoid candidates who claim that they give 110% of themselves:

1 This is impossible, and demonstrates that they are either lying or stupid

2 People like this are obnoxious and arrogant; they do not fit in well in organisations

A Straw in The Wind

Beware a straw in the wind, as it often indicates a large haystack heading your way.

Advice To Democrat Presidential Candidates

Tearing your party apart in order to win the nomination will avail yoursleves of nothing, aside from earning the contempt of your party, if that allows McCain to enther the Whitehouse by the back door.

Change

As things evolve and change something is lost, but something is gained; thus equilibrium is maintained.

Life

Humans should live life to the full, not merely survive.

Advice To Governors of New York

If you have tried to build your political career and reputation by taking credit for the prosecution of prostitution rings, don't get caught using hookers.

Minutes

Don't write minutes of meetings in a hurry, you will end up having to do twice as much work correcting the misunderstandings caused by inaccurate minutes.

Advice To Prime Ministers

Making do on only a few hours sleep every night, and forcing others to do the same, does not necessarily lead to an increase in high quality productive output.

Imagination

Imagination and the abstract affects the lives and destinies of people far more than it is given credit for.

Advice To 3G

Since you insist on basing your customer call centre offshore, at least have the wit to ensure that the connection is of sufficient quality to ensure that the customer and call centre operative can hear what each other is saying.

Faith and Violence

Violence should not be used to inspire faith.

If

Some questions starting with "if" are best left unanswered.

Wise Guys

More often than not "wise guys" are in fact only half "wise".

Mosquitos

Don't shoot mosquitos with elephant guns.