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President Lannister and other despots
You would think we know better in 2017. On one side of the world we have Kim Jong-un standing before the massed ranks of his army and...
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Chris Barrow
- Jan 2, 2017
Ready, steady, go!
For many of us, first proper day back at work tomorrow – the party being over. It occurred to me as a jogged through a frosty Dunham...
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Chris Barrow
- Dec 28, 2016
Christmas week in The Bunker
I’m a neat freak. This is possibly the quietest week of the working year and an opportunity to spend some time thinking, planning and...
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Chris Barrow
- Oct 15, 2016
Working so hard that you forget how to rest
October has established itself as the busiest month in my working calendar (and, it seems, that of many of my friends and clients who run...
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Chris Barrow
- Aug 20, 2016
Seriously
You all know how much I love my taxi-driver stories because they demonstrate the triumph of the human spirit, of love and endeavour over...
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Chris Barrow
- Aug 17, 2016
Politics, Sport and Pride
Politics I’m apolitical 99.999% of the time and rarely tempted to comment unless there is a life-changing event such as Brexit or the...
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Chris Barrow
- Jul 22, 2016
The Frequency of Disruption
Change isn’t the challenge – the pace of change is the challenge. Disruption used to be recorded in geological eras, by reference to the...
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Chris Barrow
- Jul 21, 2016
Contains Adult Themes
I have developed a natural aversion to country house hotels over the years, based on bitter experience. Arriving at the beautiful...
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Chris Barrow
- Jul 15, 2016
Business, Digital and Tears – a Friday riff
Business is good. Well, only 162 more shopping days to Christmas and Friday morning sees me on a 05:30 train to Sunderland (to work with...
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Chris Barrow
- Jul 4, 2016
Resignation Special
The antimetabole: when the going gets tough, the tough get going (originally attributed to Joseph P Kennedy – JFK’s father) ….is intended...
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Chris Barrow
- Jan 10, 2016
Broken
I’m sick of being broken and at risk of sounding like a whingeing hypochondriac. left knee has been inoperative since August. I can’t run...
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Chris Barrow
- May 24, 2015
Welcome!
For those of you interested in the concept of Perfect Imperfectionism (the freedom to be effective 80% of the time and a mess the other...
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