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[shylock]

I have a question.

Anna, I have forgotten what your argument is now. Can you explain what this has to do with political correctness again?

God, she'll be gutted.

'do you speak in rehearsed formulae soapbox? or do you react spontaneously to the person in front of you?'

Now you have completely lost me - oops must have been that bowl of soup I've just eaten - clearly driven me to insanity

Writing a case = two months work up front, plus two or three months of rewriting after going live

Absolutely nothing to do with having a conversation with a friend or loved one...

What if the fat, ugly one was better-qualified, Xenia? I've beaten many a skinny-minny in competitions for a job!

Tamum

Anna - I just wish I could say the same for you as it would be so poetic - sadly though you have me rolling around with laughter with many of your posts

political correctness and beauty.

I argue that nothing should be taboo.

Other posters think that it is not good manners not to have taboos.

Ooh, blimey, Soapy... That reminds me... I've been reading this, and I haven't had lunch yet. Bye all... off for a lard sarnie and chips!

"Nothing should be taboo"

Interesting

Gosh - you're not a fast worker then are you?

Must be the added work of making them all so racy that takes the time

Well, there's generally a lot of travel involved and meetings with lots of companies (Europe wide, sometimes further afield) and I can't dictate the agenda. Two months is pretty good going. As for the rewriting, depends on the schedule of courses, which is beyond my control.

Interesting Anna - is demand dropping off for exec training much these days? Every firm I know of including my own, seems to be going down the management school route at the moment - INSEAD, Chicago, LSE etc.

pmsl!

this is hilarious! can you imagine those lunches! hahahaha!

bk, they sound so like ours...not

soapbox - I have taken time out to bring up my children and don't want to restart until daughter is in school. However, as you so rightly point out, demand is huge, I am often approached for work and have (thank goodness) no worries about restarting when I feel like it. I know I am very, very lucky.

Oh it's only Anna Batters - she doesn't much care for me - I think because I am a little tenatious for her liking which of course reveals her rather superficial grasp of things.

I thought it was just me, but she has been rude to others too - blackandwhitecat got a particularly nasty backlash today - and of all people you could level it at, was accused of not reading much. Howls of laughter across MN followed

Blackandwhitecat not reading much? Oh, that is priceless.

Anna - I asked if demand was dropping off - not stating that it was huge - dear god, I really must have had a bowl of soup too many for lunch!

"Every firm I know of including my own, seems to be going down the management school route at the moment - INSEAD, Chicago, LSE etc." = demand is huge

People should be nice to each other and not make things personal by the way.

"What if the fat, ugly one was better-qualified, Xenia? I've beaten many a skinny-minny in competitions for a job!"
True, I meant all things being equal. Also if the person recruiting doesn't want someone better looking around I suppose they might then be biased against the slim good looking one. But over all studies have shown looking good if all things are equal does help. Also if someone is clinically obese they're going to have a lot of time off work and ultimately might die, get diabetes etc so you're courting trouble by taking them on.

I meant instead of tailored exec coaching. Or do you do work for both markets?

Oh yes, I've done both and will do both again. I love tailored, you get much better outcomes.

That's intersting. My firm swapped to management school from tailored, as the tailored was too non-businessy. We found management schools much better at fusing the personal development training with the business context in which it takes place. So leadership is covered in the context of being a CEO of a FTSE100 company, rather than purely as a 'soft' skill.