Friday, December 31, 2010

365 of 2010

Well what a year!

Weather chaos at start and finish. Past govt exposed as incompetent for years, no clear winner at election, doubtful coalition get a grip, BP, Banks and Soverign debt, P.I.G.S. and Euro crisis, water leaks and wikileaks, North Korea, China and US politics, Ipad and facebook, twitter and GroupON, whatever next its a right mixed bag.

For me closer to home big issues about the good and bad of the NHS and the care for elderly hit too close to home. Thank goodness some lovely people chose to be nurses and carers.

Men look after your prostrate, your bladder and your marbles. Make sure you have a good pension and a loveing family at hand for when you hit old age. Old age might not be till we are 100 but 60, 70 and 80 can be pretty serious for some. Most of all fight for your health and your rights while staying healthy, sound in diet and sound in mind. Its no joke when your parents, kids or yourself get seriously ill, as there are some seriously inept people out there that dont help in the NHS!!

Good luck in 2011, Im looking forwards to it!!

Monday, December 20, 2010

A fine young man turns into a fine leader of a generation!

And a few years ago in the past decade or two he was regarded just as someone who could kick a ball:

http://www.ecademy.com/node.php?id=158360

This is the power of how any young person can grow!

Labels:

Thursday, December 09, 2010

Inequality, instability and unsustainability; All are one!

Nick Horslen Bill Cinton TOP3 world issues: "Inequality, instability and unsustainability" - All are one! Triple Bottom Line - Profit, people, planet!

President Clinton on Technology, Wikileaks and the World's Problems

mashable.com

In the closing keynote at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, former U.S. President Bill Clinton discussed the significance of using technology to solve

Nick Horslen Fortunately its not just billionaires who give something away, 25million volunteers in the UK acount for around £7Bn of GDP contribution to health, education services alone. Sports volunteers accounts for billions too!!
http://www.volunteering.org.uk/magazine/Issues/2005+issues/July+August+2005/features/the-hidden-value-of-voluntee...ring

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/09/billionaires-giving-pledge-wealth?CMP=twt_gu

See more

More billionaires pledge to give away half of their wealth World news The Guardian

www.guardian.co.uk

These items are not just linked through my Triple Bottom Line interests, but through leadership and Winning in your second half, where people deliver so much more once they move beyond their career ambition, career perspective and what they saw as their defining role, self definition!

(See my earlier post on http://www.winnersinthesecondhalf.com/

.)

Cloudy outlook as Google steps up push to rule web

This is a good indicator of the current state of play and ambition!
As per earlier postings about the "cloud", its still more about the future than today and it keeps rolling like fog. Fog never turns into a cloud we know that, but the clouds do appear once the fog shifts!
FT.com / Technology - Cloudy outlook as Google steps up push to rule web

Tuesday, December 07, 2010

OECD global and country growth

Business returns OECD Factblog

The OECD figures and charts give room for optimism!

http://www.oecd.org/document/60/0,3343,en_2649_34573_45267516_1_1_1_1,00.html

Thursday, December 02, 2010

Great visual representation of global economic and health based progress

200 years of remarkable progress across 200 nations and global regions!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo&feature=player_embedded