I’ve just finished reviewing a professional document for a speaker friend in Dubai. A wandering apostrophe caught my eye. Rather than trying to explain the weird and wonderful rules of English grammar to a non-English-as-a-first-language person I looked for a quick online review of the issue.
Varsity.co.nz had me smiling with the following piece.
“Apostrophe’s are perhaps [...]
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When I began writing ‘About Time For Teaching- Time-saving tips to make teaching and administrative load easier’ I asked for contribution from educators. From South Africa, Australia and New Zealand came a common theme – tidy as you go.
‘Put things away in the right place. You won’t waste time looking for stuff and falling over [...]
Would a time management specialist encourage you to procrastinate? You bet! There’s a time and a place for everything.
I’d just returned to my office after having been on the road in two countries for five weeks. You can imagine the pile of paper ready to grab me by the throat! Everything screamed ‘Do me now’. [...]
Do you remember your mother saying, ‘Pick up your clothes (or books, or toys)?’
A modified version of the same philosophy – ‘Put it away as you go’ – applies at the highest level of business. Perhaps it’s because our mothers told us to do it that so many seemingly well-organised, highly paid and otherwise [...]
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I recently enjoyed ‘Loops: The Seven Keys To Small Business Success‘ by Mike Chaet and Steve Lundin. Since then I’ve been fascinated to notice how often the term ‘closing the loops’ has showed up in my orbit.
Think about how you feel when you’ve lots of unfinished projects hanging around. For ‘unfinished’ read ‘unclosed loop’.
When we [...]
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