Sandra has been the conference receptionist at the Hilton Manchester Airport for 19 years. When I ran my first ever financial planning seminar in 1987 she was there. When I ran the marketing workshop for The Dental Business School yesterday she was there. In those 19 years she has been the epitomy of “no problem,
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Monday was cool – writing my ezine first thing (with a change of style after feedback) and then completing two further writing projects: Copy for some specialist ortho events we are planning in the Spring and Copy for webinars I will be presenting in December and February I rather enjoy writing to deadlines. After my
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Sharing this photo of my 77-year old Mum, Norma Barrow. Spent over 2 hours with her yesterday and she was chuffed to bits. So sad that she was crying when I left — just because she is so lonely — waved me out the door so as not to be embarrassed by herself. Just puts
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Sharing this photo of my 77-year old Mum, Norma Barrow. Spent over 2 hours with her yesterday and she was chuffed to bits. So sad that she was crying when I left — just because she is so lonely — waved me out the door so as not to be embarrassed by herself. Just puts
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Much hilarity in the bar last night as we tried a few of Maurizio’s excellent cocktails and enjoyed having our eyes “read” by Paul, who is a qualified iridologist. It was good to have some chill time and not to talk about values, vision, goals and roles – in fact, to quote my recent suggested
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Sandra left us this afternoon for her vacation – so I just wanted to capture us all for a moment. From your left to right: Jamie Broughton – Footprint Leadership – developing new and emerging leaders Jen Koretsky – ADDmanagement – learning how to manage adult ADD and move forward in life Michel Neray –
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Well – it’s kind of….. Too perfect? Everywhere is spotlessly clean, extremely quiet, perfectly formed. At dinner last night, the food was magnificent and the customer service from our waiter, Jose, was faultless. But the place was largely empty – maybe we are here out of season – but the strange thing is, the car
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Sandra de Freitas arrived right on time at the Hilton this morning and, as we drove North from Toronto, she shared with me some thoughts about how her business has evolved – and also her impending vacation in South Africa, which sounds like a trip of a lifetime. I reflected on the progress that Sandra
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After my working day yesterday (mainly spent at Starbucks) I wandered off again – and found myself inexorably drawn back to the Apple shop in the Eaton Centre. Haven’t they just got one of the best brands in the world now – for anyone interested in electronics and style, this has to be the place.
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Tuesday morning and I’ve been awake since 5.30am and pottering about before starting on this week’s ezine and more business contemplation. Yesterday, I stopped work at 2.00pm local time, after hosting a telephone conference call with some of my UK dentists. The primary topic of conversation was, surprise, surprise, associate profitability and how a single-handed
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