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Welcome to the Learning Pool Blog - feel free to subscribe for free updates by RSS or email. Thanks for visiting.The thought of coming last takes me back to the fear of being picked for team games at school.
It used to be such a humiliating experience waiting for the ‘super cool’ team leader to call out [...]
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I was reminded recently of the time I had to attend a police line-up and it made me smile thinking about it so I thought I would share my story with you.
About 5 years ago, late one night, I saw a woman crouched by a neighbours car, scratching a rude word down the side with [...]
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Maybe it’s a sign of the time where rules previously unchallenged are now changing almost overnight, like bonuses in the banking sector. Or maybe it really is the start of a brave new world.
Whatever the case three cheers to GlaxoSmithKline boss, Andrew Witty, for the new strategic direction he’s announced this weekend. Witty has spearheaded [...]
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… a great place to work and it’s been confirmed to me loads of times this week when I’ve been doing reviews with some of our own team.
The Learning Pool team is wide, diverse and ever growing but I’ve learned that the reasons that people love the place include:
1. We get to wear our own clothes (seriously!)
2. The [...]
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I just want to take a moment to say thank you.
I want to say thank you to a company whose previous products have sucked. Their latest product doesn’t suck, it blows, big time.
No, I am not using irreverent Americanisms, just stating a fact. The company in question is Dyson and the product is the Airblade [...]
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So Facebook or Facepaint (as my Mum commonly refers to it) is five years old this week. And what a success story it is.
It has grown from a dorm room in Harvard to the biggest social network in the world to date with 150 million active users. Its original aim was to help students keep in [...]
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“It’s like rain on your wedding day!” so said Alanis Morrisette but, no Alanis, that is not ironic. I think that you will find that that is just bad luck.
I can tell you about ironic.
Ironic is going to an Emergency Planning Conference and Exhibition only to find that due to a bad (in both senses [...]
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