A short break

I am going to be travelling for a few days but I will be back online with Simplicity Blog from next Saturday 6 August.

I may be able to keep a check on the Blog for any comments but wil be unable to post new subjects. Feel free to comment about anything you want!

I know how hard it will be for all of you to cope without Simplicity Blog for a week ..... just joking :-)

I recommend you visit the following Blogs for your daily Blogging 'fix' - they are all brilliant sites:

http://www.tompeters.com/

http://www.felixgerena.com/

http://www.sandboxwisdom.com/

http://www.troyworman.com/

See you all next Saturday!!!!!

Blogs - more power to them I say!

Tom Peters – without a doubt the most influential figure in the world of management and business in the last 20 years has given a wonderful testimonial and reference to the value of Blogging on his own Tom Peters Blog http://www.tompeters.com/

Tom regularly makes his own personal views known on the Blog and when he speaks the world of business and management tends to listen.

He reckons Blogs are the way forward in business and I agree with him.

Someone asked me a while ago what Blogs do for revenue of the business. I think the answer is Blogs do nothing for revenue in themselves!

I think the relationships that I make through communicating with people from all parts of the planet may not result in any revenue generation but one thing it does is widen my thinking and puts me in touch with many wonderful people from different cultures to my own. That had got to be good learning. Without Blogs I certainly would not have exchanged such rich discussions over the last year or so that have enriched my learning.

I do not think Blogs are an overnight fad that will disappear. I believe they will go from strength to strength.

The world of management and business is changing just in case you hadn’t noticed and we just have to keep up with the pace of change.

Blogs are a superb way of making and expanding networks. Blogs in themselves are not a revenue earner – they are simply a way of making contacts. The generation of revenue still relies on nothing more complicated than hard work and always doing your homework. ‘Twas ever thus and Blogs do not take away the need to work hard.

It is rather like Microsoft PowerPoint – the technology to produce a slick and jazzy presentation does not mean that people will listen. Despite the best cutting edge technology the presenter has to have the ability to keep the audience awake!!

100 and going strong

I love Simplicity

In my 35 year career in the National Health Service I read numerous documents that explained how life expectancy is getting longer in the UK.

Usually the documents I read were complex, academic pieces of work that were cumbersome and full of complicated words. Not exactly reader friendly to the average person.

Yesterday it was explained very simply and vividly by Harry Cayton from the Department of Health during a healthcare conference we were working at.

Harry is a high flier but I love his simplistic approach and the language he uses. If you get a chance to see one of his speeches – don’t miss the opportunity

Harry said:

In 1952 Queen Elizabeth sent 102 telegrams to people in the United Kingdom who had reached to milestone of 100 years of age.

In 2002 – fifty years later - the Queen sent over 1000 telegrams to those reaching their century.

Here’s to the next 47 years of my life with Annie I say – we both hope to get telegrams.

I guess they won’t be sent by Queen Elizabeth … but then again …who knows?

My favourite quote so far this year!!

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." Bertrand Russell

I just love that!!