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Do you understand? Is English becoming dangerously unclear?
I had a couple of days last week where I was grappling with the English language. Not my own version of it.
Richard Pooley
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What’s your story?
How well do you know what your friends or members of your family do in their jobs? Or, if they have retired, what they did during their work
Richard Pooley
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The Perfect Pitch?
“Less is more” is my second favourite aphorism. In a management training career spanning thirty years, I must have listened to and given
Richard Pooley
7 min read


How small talk can win you big business
Oldies like me may scoff at the notion that anyone needs to be taught how to chat but we were not brought up with a sleek oblong of metal
Richard Pooley
7 min read


Why don't we do what Atticus Finch advises?
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is still studied by most US American children at some stage in their education despite the many attempts
Richard Pooley
6 min read
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