A phone to save us from our phone? Really?
by Ian Price
24 May 2011 at 3:03pm
I was recently sent the link to this article in HR Magazine (“hat-tip” to Neil Bachelor) about the inability of managers to separate work and private lives. The article covers research conducted by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) which found that: “of the 76% of managers who can use devices including smartphones, laptops or tablets [...]
Why it?s not just ageing mice that need to worry about memory loss
by Ian Price
19 Apr 2011 at 1:37pm
This news item on the BBC site refers to some published research that suggests elderly mice struggled to remember their way around a maze when subject to an excess of cortisol. Cortisol is one of those “goldilocks” hormones that we need a little of but not too much. We can end up with too much [...]
?Beware the BlackBerry Squint?
by Ian Price
18 Feb 2011 at 12:14pm
Here’s an impact of over-connectedness I hadn’t considered – Marie Claire attributes the rise in women having premature wrinkles around the eyes to squinting at phones, BlackBerrys and other small-screen devices. Another reason, I suppose, that we should be alarmed about the trend towards over-connectedness. Help is at hand, however, as according to celebrity surgeon [...]
?I heard your email?: The latest worrying trend?
by Ian Price
6 Jan 2011 at 4:43pm
Just before Christmas, I received an auto-response from a contact of mine which had “I heard your email” as the subject header. This follows a post I wrote a few months ago about BMW and RIM teaming up to enable you to sync your BlackBerry with your car. However, what my friend is using is one of [...]
The CEO?s Lament: Time to Reappraise Leadership in the 21st Century
by Ian Price
16 Dec 2010 at 4:04pm
I’ve just read the press release that Pfizer put out to announce that their CEO, Jeffrey Kindler, is retiring. Here’s what Kindler says: “The combination of meeting the requirements of our many stakeholders around the world and the 24/7 nature of my responsibilities, has made this period extremely demanding on me personally.” Such releases from [...]
Premier Inn Survey: Are We Losing the Weekend?
by Ian Price
23 Nov 2010 at 9:26am
The Lost Weekend may have been one of Billy Wilder’s greatest movies starring Ray Milland but a survey conducted by Premier Inn and covered by the Daily Telegraph on Saturday suggests a new meaning. Based on a survey of 4,000 workers, Premier Inn concludes that most Britons only enjoy a one-day weekend: – they don’t [...]
Twitter: Can they innovate their way out of information overload?
by Ian Price
15 Oct 2010 at 8:25am
I am a big fan of Clay Shirky’s famous Web 2.0 talk on filter failure, particularly where he acknowldges the role of social norms that we have allowed to arise in the way we use communications technology. But it seems that the world now focuses its efforts exclusively on addressing filter failure rather than some [...]
Are the death notices for email premature?
by Ian Price
5 Oct 2010 at 8:07am
In a recent article on BNET, Inder Sidhu of Cisco predicts that email will be replaced by other communications media such as blogging, Twitter etc. I think this may be true for some individuals – I have read one or two blogs where people have announced “email bankruptcy” and said they will only communicate through [...]
Things you?re unlikely to hear from a leader no. 1: ?I?m just off for my afte…
by Ian Price
24 Sep 2010 at 1:55pm
There have been a couple of interesting things out this week about sleep and personal energy. Tony Schwartz writes in his HBR blog that all leaders should be taking powernaps and urging their people to do likewise. And on TED, there is a new video from Jessa Gamble on our natural body clocks – it’s [...]
Why are 20-somethings too exhausted to go out?
by Ian Price
21 Sep 2010 at 6:11am
Yesterday’s Telegraph covered some research by Benenden Healthcare into the lifestyle of what they call “nifty-fifties” compared to people in the twenties. Although Benenden haven’t published the details in full, they surveyed 4,000 people and it appears that those in their 50s get out more, see more friends and exercise more than people half their age. One would have thought [...]
