Lecturer in mgmt, FHEA | Mgmt consultant, business transformation (ex Accenture & Unisys) | Historian & author | 'A really good book', Robert Elms on 'London' |
Trailing my latest book w Pen & Sword. The story of ancient Rome, from its foundations to collapse. Illustrated with 150 photographs of Rome's most significant sites, plus a few of my favourite bars. It's out later this year. Salus! @penswordbooks
So mandarins spending other people's money... Just focus on creating the conditions for business growth and let the market decide winners and losers.
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'accumulated personal knowledge becoming worthless'... At least AI is not spontaneous, in the way that human discussion is, yet...
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Crowd investors taken for a ride (BD issued preference shares to its senior investment partner).
BBC News - From a ยฃ1bn dream to a brutal collapse: How Brewdog hit the rocks - BBC News
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Changes in scope and unnecessary and affordable technical targets. Politically driven.
BBC News - HS2 failings blamed on high-speed focus and political pressure - BBC News
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Italian Renaissance master Raffaello Sanzio, or Raphael, died in Rome on this day in 1520 on what was likely his 37th birthday. He is buried in the Pantheon.
#OnThisDay in 1721, Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.๐ณ๏ธ๐ Discover his life and legacy๐: https://t.co/8D1HcFzokZ (@museumofpm) #RobertWalpole#BritishHistory#OTD
Photograph from my upcoming book. The Clivus Argentarius (one of Rome's oldest streets & still in use) leads to the Forum of Caesar. Caesar's complex set a model for future imperial developments comprising temples, piazzas and colonnades โ all exhibiting a flavour of the East.
Photograph from my upcoming book. The Temple of Portunus, Rome (80 BC ) is one of the best preserved of all Roman temples, owing to it being converted into a Christian church. The temple is dedicated to the god Portunus; protector of gateways, keys and livestock.
Blaming anybody for the predicaments of the US.
Trumpโs strategy to get his way: declare one fake โemergencyโ after another | Steven Greenhouse https://t.co/V0lK1xsKGL