Category Archives: General

Opus Interruptus

In his article for The Harvard Business Review Death by Information Overload Paul Hemp cites research that reveals not only how our personal wellbeing but also our productivity can be affected by the ever increasing volume of information available to us.  Hemp claims that the sheer volume of information to be assimilated threatens our decision making and… Read More »

A drop in the ocean?

Last weekend’s Sunday Times Business section carried an article by Danny Fortson and Kate Walsh about the advisers working on the collapse of Lehman Brothers. The pictures at the top of the article showing a grim faced Dick Fuld, former Chief Executive, and one of the workers who lost her job that fateful day almost one… Read More »

What’s all this about?

Credit to Chris Dale in his blog post Sugaring the e-Discovery Pill (seventh paragraph from the bottom) for warning that “the only people who will read undiluted technical information are those who are already on side”.  He goes on to say that “the audience we want is those who are not converted…” I agree wholeheartedly. In… Read More »