Be liked to be more successful February 23, 2011 PEOPLE are more likely to want to do business with you if they like you. But are there things that you can do to foster that chemistry? Yes, says American business writer, entrepreneur and investor Guy Kawasaki, in his new book Enchantment. Enchantment, he says, is “the process of delighting people with a product, service, [...]
Making decisions in the real world February 23, 2011 IN a letter to the English chemist Joseph Priestley, the 18th-century American polymath Benjamin Franklin set out a rule for making decisions: “Divide half a sheet of paper by a line into two columns, writing over the one Pro and over the other Con. I put down under the different headings short lists of the [...]
THESE THINGS I KNOW | TIPS FOR SUCCESS IN THE CITY February 23, 2011 Keep control over your career rather than allowing yourself to be railroaded by events or other people’s opinions and perceptions. Too often, we simply react to opportunities that happen to come our way. Being clear about what you want is the first step to making sure you achieve it. Once you know what you are [...]
Wareing’s next stop: St Pancras February 23, 2011 MARCUS Wareing appears, sleek in dark clothes, at the building site that is soon to be the Gilbert Scott, his first restaurant since his flagship at the Berkeley. With his silky-looking clothes, graceful step and searing blue eyes, he looks like what he is: the sort of man who understands and presides over Michelin stars [...]
House swapping and geopolitcal disaster February 23, 2011 BEFORE I KNEW YOU BY AMANDA BROOKFIELD PENGUIN, £6.99 MID-Atlantic at 35,000 feet, two couples pass in opposite directions. They are on the seemingly perfect credit crunch vacation, an international house swap with suitably affluent, never-to-be-seen hosts. Sophie and Andrew Chapman leave their Victorian family home in south-west London, their teenage daughters and Sophie’s recent [...]
Gadget watches February 23, 2011 IT’S four decades since the launch of the first digital watch, and the technology is about to take its next big leap forward. Thanks to the proliferation of e-readers and touchscreen devices, those old liquid crystal digital displays now look about as up-to-date as tartan bell-bottoms. It was only a matter of time before watch [...]
WHAT’S NEW IN GADGETS AND TECHNOLOGY February 23, 2011 SONY LAUNCHES NEW VAIO RANGE Sony unveiled its new range of Vaio laptops this week, including the strikingly-coloured C Series. Available in luminous orange, green and pink, it features light emitting technology that makes your laptop look like it’s glowing. For the more demure consumer, you can also grab it in black or white, and [...]
Build up your online profile if you want to get poached February 23, 2011 THERE was a time when all you needed to advance your career – other than a good work ethic – was a connection or two with a well-placed headhunter. Now the key is to develop a strong online presence too. The top City talent scouts have been tending to turn to social networking sites to [...]
OUT OF OFFICE February 23, 2011 COMEDY RUSH LIVE If you like your comedy of the quick-fire variety, then tonight’s Comedy Rush show should be right up your street. it features 60 comic acts in 60 minutes flat, with a line-up that includes Brendon Burns, Lucy Porter, Robin Ince, Howard Read, Simon Munnery and Andrew Maxwell. If you can’t make it [...]
Gaddafi pledges to die a martyr February 22, 2011 COLONEL Gaddafi yesterday vowed to “die as a martyr” and urged his supporters to attack his enemies as he clung to the vestiges of power. The despot said he would never flee Libya, saying he will “fight to my last drop of blood”. Following the leader’s speech, Tripoli residents reported heavy machine-gun battles in the [...]
