By Brian Buck | 02.05.13
Collapsing Worlds
As the death toll from the collapse of the Rana Plaza garment manufacturing building in Dhaka, Bangladesh approaches 400, the…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 25.04.13
Add on
BMW used to do it. So did Mercedes. Porsche and Ferrari still do as far as I am aware, though…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 18.04.13
Creativity should be embraced not squashed
When the painter James McNeill Whistler was a cadet at West Point, he was assigned to draw a bridge in…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 15.04.13
Thatcher, power and the lessons of confrontation
Many words have been written in the past few days since the death of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, some…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 04.04.13
Listen Up
A recent article in the New York Times draws a comparison between the physiological aspects of hearing and listening. In brief…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 28.03.13
Bad behavior
Over the weekend there were reports in the UK media that the multinational retailer Laura Ashley had written to its…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 20.03.13
An inconvenient series of truths
The current financial crisis in one of the EU’s outposts, Cyprus, clearly exemplifies and demonstrates some undeniable negotiating truths. Make…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 14.03.13
If you have a complaint, don’t wait
I recently stayed at a national hotel chain that I use regularly. On the third night of my stay, I…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07.03.13
The critical mass
Shortly after taking office for his second term, President Obama announced that he would visit the Middle East to kick-start…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 21.02.13
I’ll tell my brother
When I was younger, so much younger than today – I would occasionally find myself in situations which I really…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 14.02.13
What’s the beef?
Perhaps a better question might be, where’s the beef? The continuing furor about what actually is in our food took…
Read the post By Brian Buck | 07.02.13
It takes two
The UK press this week has been obsessed with the story of Liberal Democrat MP and ex Cabinet Minister Chris…
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