Trying to roll back the years on the Rugby field, and for a salary I help leaders think through what it takes to inspire, motivate and bring people with them
Client: "We're too stuffy and corporate. Make us sound human and approachable."
Me: *writes first draft*
Client: "Far too colloquial. This is for serious business people."
Crapulent and crambazzled: two words born from excess. They mean, respectively, decidedly hungover, and prematurely aged from too much drink/food/partying etc.
5 Sep 1978: Lunch with Michael Joseph, my publisher: Krug ‘59, Mersault-Charmes ‘70, Ch. Lafite ’35, Ch. Guiraud ’47, Fonseca 45.
I refuse the offer of brandy afterwards, it is never a good idea to drink after luncheon.
25 years ago, Croatia was a land riddled with war, horror, displacement and despair. Many of these players have survived this in their infancies and childhoods. #CRO