Trying to build a sense of community

Some scientists are not nice people

While waiting for a guest to join me at my lunch table in a busy Brussels restaurant last week, I overheard a person at an ad...

You are what they think you are - it’s a question of perception

My nephew told me that his parents think he’s lazy.  “You are” I told him.  “But I am not, I clear away the dishes ...

Ethics, Morality and Integrity in business

Life is naturally stressful

Since the beginning of time stress has been the center of human life and activity: Finding food & shelter and keeping one...

Women in Business

Last week Michelle McDowell won the Veuve Clicquot businesswoman of the year award. A quite outstanding engineer, <a target="...

Ten things that drive me nuts!

I recently saw a very poor TV program on the things that people hate about work.&nbsp; The problem was that it only featured ...

Diversity &amp; Tolerance, opposite sides of the same coin

There’s something about the poet <a target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Zephaniah">Benjamin Zephaniah...

Stop the world, I want to get off!

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that things seems to be going just a little too fast? One minute we’re dealing with t...