30 Sep 2004
If I could have my time over again, I would make exactly the same call on all the big decisions.
12 Sep 2004
| by Jeremy Bullmore
I'm working on a secret internal project within my engineering company. I was so enthusiastic about it that eventually at a pub session after work I let the news slip to a junior colleague. I'm now in a panic - if word gets out about the project it could get into the trade press (quite likely), and...
12 Sep 2004
| by Jeremy Bullmore
Since starting my new job, my former colleagues keep calling to ask how to do things. It's been going on almost daily for two months and is beginning to interfere with my current job.
01 Sep 2004
| by Jeremy Bullmore
I am at my wits' end. I'm a recent business studies graduate with a first-class degree, but I've just been fired from my third job in a year. It's always the same pattern: I ace the job interviews, get a position, and then never make it past the three-month probation period.
01 Sep 2004
| by Miranda Kennett
I'm always doing everything on the run, leaving projects half-finished and not up to my usual standards.
01 Sep 2004
Where to go, what to drive, how to get there, where to stay, what to do, how much to spend.
01 Sep 2004
| by Richard Bremner
The MG ZT 260 is a genuine sports saloon - and you don't pay in refinement either.
01 Sep 2004
| by Glen Drury, managing director of Kelkoo UK
FOR BUSINESS - The Sofitel Le Faubourg hotel in Paris is my favourite business hotel. It's the small things that set a hotel apart, and Le Faubourg has a few of those. For me, it's the showers. I'm a shower man, but in French hotels the showers often don't have screens and you're forced to have a bath...
01 Sep 2004
It's barely 10 o'clock and already Margaret has brushed off three senior executives.
01 Sep 2004
What is it? Tired of sly, ironic advertising, dishonest management speak and bogus corporate values? You'll be in the market for a bit of authenticity.