Gerry Marsden would be reaching for his Pacemaker if he ever heard the travel retail reworking of his (and originally Rodgers & Hammerstein’s) song that became a famous Liverpool FC anthem.
Events
Hanging tough in the Self-Isolation Bureau
Another thing is exposed in crisis. Your values. How you treat people. Customers, staff, colleagues. Don’t demand assistance and not give it. Remember, people will remember how you treated them during this crisis.
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Miscellaneous
Breakfast with the birds at Chez Moodie
One family man, an ex-duty free executive, rendered jobless by the shutdown of the hospitality industry, is going to work for Amazon rather than take a government handout, figuring the money is needed more by others. You are the man Steve.
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Events
My Wilson moment in the Moodie Davitt Castaway Bureau
“Sorry, terms & conditions apply.” If you’re told that, remind the party concerned that so will terms and conditions when the good times return. As in who you do business with.
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Miscellaneous
The end of certainty
It was as if each of them was simply trying to come to terms with the change to the human condition as much as they were trying to navigate the immediate future for their businesses.
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Airports
Multi-hyphenating on the bright side of life
My music taste has taken a turn for the darker (a splash of Mahler, lots of Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave, even Bob Dylan’s Stuck inside of London with the COVID-19 Blues Again).
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Events
A drop of Cloudy Bay to offset these cloudy days
In terms of Paul McCartney’s opening lines, I got my retaliation in early.
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Events
Because Only a Yes to Sex is a Yes
“The startling reality is that every 73 seconds an American is sexually assaulted – frequently involving the perpetrator’s misuse of alcohol,” says Pernod Ricard North America Chairman and CEO Ann Mukherjee.
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Miscellaneous
As I Walked Out One Midwinter Morning
The daffodil, not the Black Swan, should now become our metaphor.
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Events
Tales of class, from Dan Carter to Christian Courtin-Clarins
I realised that in Clarins you have a group that can foot it with and sometimes excel the biggest (and boy are they big) and best beauty houses in terms of R&D, product creation, packaging, marketing, merchandising and CSR.
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Events
Let the roaring twenties begin
The 2010s nearly gone. How did that happen? It seems just the other day that I was walking along the banks of the Thames in the darkness of a chilly London night as we ushered in the new millennium.
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Miscellaneous
Saluting some of the best in the business
The L’Oréal team is right up there with the best. They’re pleasant, proactive, professional and passionate in everything they do, as well as incredibly hard working, their releases well-written, timely and always backed up by great images.
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Lifestyle
A Muddly Medley and a tale of Lindor chocolate – ‘The Heaven I was waiting to see’
“Putting these short stories and poems together was very hard for me because even though I like writing, I am on the other hand a very short 11 year old with a very short attention span and have a very annoying brother at hand.”