Archives for May 2011
Barcelona & the Beautiful Game
Today Barcelona is one of Europe’s, if not the world’s, most successful destinations for both tourism and as a business location. People even talk of adopting the Barcelona model when it comes to redefining a post-industrial location. However, it was all very different forty years ago. In the 1975 series Fawlty Towers, Manuel, the hapless [...]
Dark Angels
A month or so ago I was fortunate enough to attend a creative business writers course at Merton College Oxford. The company behind the course is called Dark Angels ( http://www.dark-angels.org.uk/index.html ) a UK based organisation dedicated to improving business writing. There were just eight fellow writers attending, amongst them some of the most creative [...]