Comments on: Only connect

By: Anita

Anita — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:52:28 +0000

Wow. I can’t agree more with your concern about those battered and bruised words that are used so often in public services. And ‘Only connect’ has been a phrase that’s resonated with me since I first read Howards End when I was 16. I thought of calling my business something related because that phrase is so meaningful for me, but it didn’t seem to work. I was over the moon when I discovered a local (Cardiff) band of the same name but that’s another story …

By: Sarah McCartney

Sarah McCartney — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:07:07 +0000

I’d better let you know in case you think I’ve been reading your mind again that my business email has been onlyconnect@littlemax.co.uk for over ten years. I also love Howards End.
Love,
Sarah.

By: Gwen Williams

Gwen Williams — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:41:23 +0000

Hi John,
Yes you did a public service! If only you had invited our senior managers though, the ones who write all those “empty vessels” in management documents and annual reports and all that paperwork we have to find room for in our drawers and later shred (therapeutically). By the way this week we are “ManagingWithLess” (spaces between words?) and have run out of pencil sharpeners. And another word which makes me groan; “scoping”. Why can no-one say “we must find out……”
Many thanks for the manic and radical workshops. I am currently revising my CV using stories instead of boring lists of employment. What do you think about that? Theme for a Dark Angels Workshop? You could always do a scoping study. Yours anarchically, Gwen