Mostly for my reference ... To Do list, from Richard Wilkins, Mayor of Sunnydale in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, in the episode "Bad Girls" from Season 3:

• GREET SCOUTS [tick]
  
• PLUMBER UNION RESCHEDULE [tick]
  
• CALL TEMP AGENCY [tick]
  
• BECOME INVINCIBLE [tick]
  
• MEETING WITH PTA
  
• HAIRCUT

Mayor Wilkins is my managerial hero. He pursues a major overall ( Read more... )

I've realised that one of the things that stops Torchwood being really good is that it is so badly managed. Yes! Never mind sexual tension and gadgets and plots: what it needs to make it great is better managementRecruitment and retention policies are a total mess. The staff they do have don't act as a team: they're a bunch of talented ( Read more... )

I should have been doing other stuff instead of that last update. But I've just had a brilliant insight.

Sellar and Yeatman, in their fantastic book 1066 And All That, revolutionised the understanding of History by pointing out that "History is not what you thought. It is what you can remember ( Read more... )