Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle
New Thinking from Framework Consulting
I wrote a couple of articles explaining why Jamaican business-people, and indeed the public at large, needs to pay close attention to what happens in Trinidadian politics.
One article was chosen as the letter of the day in the Jamaican Daily Gleaner and can be found by clicking here: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20100414/letters/letters1.html
The other was published in YourMoneyeZine and can be read by clicking at any point below:
I recently wrote an article for YourMoney ezine on the topic of building your own Caribbean-wide network.
Over at my time management blog I have been tacking some substantial topics, and producing videos as a way to get some tricky ideas across.
Here is a pretty long sample of what I have been doing, in the form of a video that tackles the problem of The Weekly Review, which is an issue that many have with their time management systems.
After you have watched the video, you can check out 20 videos that I made at the following link on the 2time website: 20 Frequently Asked Questions About Time Management.
I’ll be offering the NewHabits-NewGoals time management programmes in Jamaica and Trinidad during the upcoming weeks.
Port of Spain, Trinidad: March 25-26
Click on the links above to be taken to the information on each programme.
Back in September 2009 I was interviewed by Aldo Owen of Businessuite on the topic of Caribbean corporate culture.
The last month has been a hectic one, and I have some good news to report. I now have the pleasure of co-hosting a fairly new radio program here in Jamaica, on BESS FM – 100.1.
It’s a business program, and I got off the mark on February 1st with a focus on the topic of the acquisition of Air Jamaica by Caribbean Airlines.
I’ll be working for a while with Aldo Owen, who is working alongside me while I develop some of the skills needed to be a good radio host.
Before I came on the station, I did do a few guest appearances.
I recently decided to close out my ebook “The New Networking: Caribbean 2008” at the end of the year, in order to make way for some new ideas and a new e-book at some point.
While I don’t plan to write its successor anytime soon, I recall discovering Facebook just as the ebook was about to be released, and having to “wheel and come again” with a section devoted to that social networking tool. Of course, today Facebook has been supplemented with Twitter… how things change!
Here is the link to the ebook if you don’t have it. Please pass this information on to your friends also — this will be their last chance to receive the ebook from me: The New Networking: Caribbean 2008 http://fwconsulting.com/newnetworking
A recent column by Jean Lowrie-Chin in the Jamaica Observer described some of the work we are doing to help Caribbean companies work better across cultural boundaries.
(I’m not sure what happened to the link at the Observer, but the article appears to have disappeared. I have placed it here.)
It’s no secret that we have a problem managing mavericks and creatives here in the Caribbean.
Here is my take on the issue — it’s the cover article in the most recent issue of Businessuite Magazine.