Monthly Archives: May 2011

Work is boring, saving’s boring!

Posted on May 15, 2011 by henry tapper

Natural synergies between work and saving are plentiful but the most obvious one is that people tend to departmentalise their lifestyles so that the tough things – bills, savings and the the stuff of work while the fun things are done at home. When employers make it … Continue reading →

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Couldn’t have put it better myself

Posted on May 11, 2011 by henry tapper

“In a year’s time”, he says, “it will almost certainly look totally different to this”. Continue reading →

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Global command post???

Posted on May 8, 2011 by henry tapper

We’ve been sold a pup. The arrest of Bin Laden is revealing an uncomfortable truth – we were terrified of a couple of couriers, an old beardie boy and a goat holed up in a middle class suburb of an Islamabad suburb.

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Welcome to my (Facebook) world

Posted on May 7, 2011 by henry tapper

The time has come to reorganise the pensions message so it can fit on the screen of a mobile phone and is worthy of sitting in Facebook in boxes and on Facebook walls.
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Magnanimous in defeat

Posted on May 6, 2011 by henry tapper

To all at Incisive – well done boys and girls- what would we do without you even if you could’nt run an election in Zimbabwe! Continue reading →

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Is personality an unrewarded risk?

Posted on May 4, 2011 by henry tapper

Face it – I am your unrewarded risk.
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