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Turnaround – Turning Around Failing Companies or Organisations

7th December 2020 1642again 3417 Comments

The Covid panic/lockdown disaster has confronted many businesses and other organisations throughout the UK with an existential challenge.  A long dark winter of spreading and harsher lockdowns is crushing large numbers already and others will [more…]

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Book Review: The Throwback by Tom Sharpe

27th April 2020 1642again 2621 Comments

Some books can influence the way we view the world, perhaps we read them at a particularly impressionable time in our lives. Perhaps when we are young or going through some form of major crisis [more…]

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The Business Cash Flow Cycle & the Current Economic Heart Attack

31st March 2020 1642again 3002 Comments

By chance and then a modicum of success, I ended up with a career helping companies going through times of change, needing a new strategy, or in crisis.   I’ve worked in hospitality, wholesale, IT and [more…]

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Lent & the 40 Days in the Old and New Testaments

22nd March 2020 1642again 2702 Comments

In continuing my series of articles on the striking consistencies of theme and message within the Old and New Testaments, it seems apt not to discuss Lent and Jesus’ Forty Days in the Wilderness which [more…]

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Disintermediation

9th February 2020 1642again 2444 Comments

My first job was as a graduate trainee for a merchant bank in the City in the late 1980s and among the many buzzwords that the Slick Willies of that profession used to bandy about [more…]

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The Old Testament Prophets in Retrospect

19th January 2020 1642again 2113 Comments

The Major Old Testament Prophets – Making Sense of Them We have now reviewed in some detail the major Old Testament Prophets: Elijah, Elisha, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, the ostensibly minor prophet Jonah, and [more…]

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Daniel – a Prophetic Vision Part 5

12th January 2020 1642again 2042 Comments

Nebuchadnezzar’s Madness, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of Babylon In a prophetic book of such striking imagery and dramatic scenes as that of Daniel, the accounts of Nebuchadnezzar’s madness, Belshazzar’s Feast and the Fall of [more…]

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Shepherds, Kings and Angels – Some Thoughts on the Nativity

29th December 2019 1642again 1745 Comments

We are all familiar with the ingredients of the nativity story: the birth of Jesus foretold. The Census of Caesar Augustus (tax censuses were a regular feature of the Roman Empire and a Quirinus was [more…]

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The Paradox of Christ’s Nativity

24th December 2019 1642again 5899 Comments

“In the beginning was the Word. and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by Him, and without Him was [more…]

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