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A.O.B.

AOB is An Occasional Blog by the partners, associates, clients and friends of The Governance Partnership. Two ideas drive AOB: one is that we at TGP come across business stories and ideas that we feel intriguing enough to merit a bigger audience than that of boardroom or bar-room; the other idea is that AOB should be serious but not solemn. The politicos make everyone glum enough as it is.

  • George Osborne's Gaffe

    Published: 27 March 2012

    The elderly deserve better care and more dignity. Report after report and commentary after commentary stresses this point; and, of course, the Government agrees with every word – but not Chancellor George Osborne.

  • Keep it real, keep it manageable, keep it valuable

    Published: 30 January 2012

    Late last week I received an email notifying me that I had a new follower on Twitter. As I was busy, I left it until the end of the day to read. I then saw that my new follower was an ‘online marketing guru’ with a following of something like 18,000 people; his own following is about 21,000. I think this ‘social media guru’ is all wrong in his approach to followers.

  • Only little birdies should go tweet, tweet, tweet

    Published: 24 January 2012

    Human beings create an ever-evolving digital technology, which in turn shapes the way human beings communicate. Yet individual careers and corporate reputations suffer because in one respect the evolution of human beings – except those who create the technology – lags behind that of the technology that’s supposed to be our servant. But once that gap is acknowledged, it’s easily and quickly bridged.

  • Self-checks for spelling that smells

    Published: 17 January 2012

    Computer spell check is indispensable but can be irritating – if, for example, you write in English rather than American, and Microsoft’s American English spell check would prefer you to write ‘honor’ rather than ‘honour’ and so on.

  • UK politicians' profitable swansongs

    Published: 10 January 2012

    The more detested a British politician is in his or her own country, it seems, the more popular he or she becomes overseas. A recent article in London’s The Sunday Times reported a secondhand bookseller as refusing a free copy of Gordon Brown’s latest book ‘as it would not sell’. Beyond the Crash is the former British Prime Minister’s recipe for sorting out the world after the 2008 crash.