If you are interested in joining a comment competition with Chartered Management Institute http://blog.managers.org.uk/
So Amazon have bought Zappos – wow – a video of Amazon CEO talking to Zappos staff http://blog.managers.org.uk/post/jeff-bezos-talks-to-zappos-561.aspx#id_1fcb87d1-e0a1-45ed-b0f4-459cfb470848
Some interesting thoughts on professional speaking http://realsmartnow.net/2009/07/06/speaking-it-real/
Beware of giving poor service – a song about United Airlines http://blog.managers.org.uk/post/Beware-giving-poor-customer-service-United-Airlines-broke-my-guitar3d6261.aspx#id_ec65e9af-1573-49c2-860f-86def496143b
Last week sees BA staff being prepared to work a month for free in order to help their company – is this the start of a transformation in the employee contract? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XNFYBB1j_Q
How to thrill your audience with Power Point http://www.psychotactics.com/artpowerpoint
A short interesting blog on how blinkered we can get and how this inhibits innovation http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/anthony/2009/07/how_knowledge_can_hurt_innovat.html
Non business
If you have a new kitten – http://www.whiskas.co.uk/MyWhiskasKitten.aspx?cellID=GB_1452_2
Your mission if you choose to accept it http://thenextweb.com/2009/07/23/mission-today-accept/
Want a garden composter? http://www.thegreenfamilia.co.uk/garden-king-220-litre-composter/
If you live in South London and want something fun to do on Saturday afternoon http://www.younglambeth.org/Play-Pathfinder/Events-Calendar.aspx
Enjoy and have a great weekend.
