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Ken's Blue Blog
Musings on "the bleedin' obvious"; views on the meaning of life, or anything else that takes my fancy.
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts

Thursday, December 08, 2016

Advice To Businesses In The Pre Christmas Period

As sure as eggs are eggs, any major decision taken in the hectic and "jolly" days leading up to Christmas will inevitably turn sour in the New Year.

Postpone all major decisions until the sober reality of January.

Friday, November 20, 2015

Advice To Businesses

Do not be quick to spend money you haven't got, in order to resolve someone else's fuck up!

Monday, November 16, 2015

Advice To Customers and Suppliers

It helps if you don't dick each other around, and are upfront at the beginning of a business relationship.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Consciences In Business

Consciences and being a "c*nt" in business should not be confused. You can have a conscience and be a wealthy businessperson, but being a "c*nt" in business precludes you from having conscience.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Advice To Dishonest Businessmen

In the short term your scams, con tricks and dishonesty may well give you some short term gains. However, in the long term these lies and scams will avail you of nothing; you will end up penniless and friendless.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Advice To Apprentice Candidates

To experience true "blue sky thinking", open a window and throw yourselves out of it.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

Advice To Apprentice Candidates

Try sprinkling less cocaine on your cornflakes in the morning; that way you will have a more balanced and realistic perception of yourselves, your skills, your personalities and how you interact with others around you.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Houses of Cards

Houses made of cards look very elegant, and more often than not take much painstaking time and effort to construct. However, they readily collapse at the merest puff of air or tremble of the ground.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Advice To Fishermen

When you have been fishing for a considerable period of time without a single bite, throw a stick of dynamite into the water in order to achieve some results.

The same advice can be used as a parable for those engaged in moribund diplomatic talks and those running businesses on their last legs.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Monday, February 18, 2013

Advice To Businessmen - Laughter and Business

If you can't laugh at the absurdity of it all, then don't "go the show".

Friday, February 15, 2013

Advice To Cretinous Businessmen

When taking a third party to see a factory, company or exhibition always make sure that the place still exists and functions!

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Advice To Business men - The Curse of Xmas

Businessmen beware the curse of Xmas, when everything that can go wrong with your business does go wrong in the run up to Xmas.

More often than not these errors, cock ups and disasters are not noticed until the New Year when it is often too late to resolve them.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Sound Business Advice

Turnover is vanity,
Profit is sanity,
Cash is reality!

Tuesday, October 02, 2012

Advice To Businessmen

A moribund website is synonymous with a moribund company.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Advice To Businessmen

Businesses fail when the board doesn't communicate with one another.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Advice To Businessmen

The butterfly style of management (flitting from one project to another, without ever focusing on one) is guaranteed to fail.

Friday, August 17, 2012

Happy Happy Joy Joy

There is nothing more satisfying than watching two dishonest organisations trying to con one another in a business deal, and seeing them both losing big time because of their greed and dishonesty.