In the midst of ‘writer’s block’ I am suddenly and mercifully awakened by the joyous chorus of a little boy’s voice. It was excited, impatient and innocent. The words rolled flawlessly into one long gasping parade of sentences as he provided our ‘front of house’ personnel with a recitation so full of emphasis and enthusiasm I feared he might explode.
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The American Rifleman’s Association has a well known rebuttal for those who oppose the tightening of gun control. It goes like this, ‘Guns aren’t dangerous; people are!’ Sadly, they’re right! I suppose we could argue the pros and cons for hours but it all amounts to the same thing. Some poor individual ends up dead or wounded.
Some bright spark from the International Monetary Fund made a statement which has to go down as a ‘flash of the bleeding obvious’. He stated, that the current financial malaise is being driven by a “global lack of confidence”. From a body which is supposed to advise on future financial likelyhoods, that has to go down as the master of all understatements.
Hidden within every organisation is a mysterious phenomenon. It can be a blessing; it can be a curse. The deeper it is the more powerful it becomes. Like a silent vapour it permeates the atmospherics, the function and the daily behaviour of the people who work within the walls of its influence.
I see both sides of the story when it comes to sponsorship. I’m responsible for consulting as a representative of a festival that seeks to garner sponsors and I get the requests from events that need client’s support.
I see both sides of the story when it comes to sponsorship. I’m responsible for consulting as a representative of a festival that seeks to garner sponsors and I get the requests from events that need client’s support.
The story goes that at the end of his life Michelangelo made an allegorical sketch of an old man accompanied by the words ‘ancora impara’. Translated it means “I’m still learning”…