I’m just getting to the last few chapters of The Eddie Stobart Story by Hunter Davies.
Eddie Stobart is a family firm of truckers in the UK who are now one of the country’s leading haulage firms.
The brothers suffered with dyslexia and speech impediments, with no formal business training, and yet they’ve gone on to become [...]

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Who makes the coffee in your office?
You probably make your own, I’m guessing. If you’ve got visitors to the office, you’ll either do it for them or have a receptionist who takes care of it.
I just got thinking about this because Vinny, one of our new hires at Target Recruitment, got spammed by Adecco twice [...]

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Seth Godin has written an eye-opening piece about Firefox users on his excellent blog.
… 25% of the visitors we track at Squidoo use Firefox, which is not surprising. But 50% of the people who actually build pages on the site are Firefox users. Twice as many.
Firefox is an alternative web-browser to Internet Explorer. It was [...]

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