“Spelling mistakes cost millions” according to an article on the BBC News web-site.
An on-line entrepreneur said analysis of website figures showed that a single spelling mistake can cut on-line sales by 50%. First impressions are important on the internet. Continue reading »
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Tweets mightier than the sword – maybe not
In my last blog, on informational warfare, I asked the rhetorical question; “is the tweet mightier than the sword?” citing Libya (a week is a long time in politics), China and Iran, as countries which had curtailed the impact of social networking. Catching up with my reading I found a recent article in New Scientist … Continue reading »
Multi-tasking addiction makes you stupider than smoking pot
60 years ago Carlson carried out the first empirical study of what managers actually do but it was another 20 years before Henry Mintzberg’s study of Chief Executives, published as: “The Nature of Managerial Work”, made people realise that, among other things; “managers’ jobs are characterised by brevity, variety, and fragmentation”. And from that study … Continue reading »
