In this issue: • Building Relationships • Food Sector is Thriving • Don’t believe everything you read – recovery is imminent • Better times ahead for Civil Engineering • BOOK REVIEW: Shoe Dog By Phil Knight Hiring for Success Issue 15

By Ciaran Ryan We are already well into 2015 already and the Christmas break feels like it almost never happened. Each year seems to start off the same: a slow first week and suddenly things pick up with violence in the second week. Then it’s all systems go. That said, let’s not forget why we […] more

By Ciaran Ryan I was recently at a training college where young college graduates, mostly from poor backgrounds and with no work experience, were being readied for the work place. What I found most fascinating about the training was the emphasis on soft skills: how to communicate, how to dress for the workplace, how to […] more

Bruna Martinuzzi, CEO of Clarion Enterprises, provides some useful tips for improving productivity. These tips are gleaned from interviews conducted with some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs, so it is worth heeding what they have to say. Also useful, she says, are some of the free software apps now available for organising your life, […] more

Here are some useful tips for productivity from Kathleen Davis, editor at Fastcompany.com. She suggests getting away from Facebook, focusing on one thing at a time and hauling out the old-fashioned “To Do” lists. What’s great about this article is that she asks advice from some of the top productivity gurus in the world. Enjoy! […] more

By Ciaran Ryan The name Genghis Khan evokes images of bloodlust, the likes of which this world has seldom seen. Entire cities were wiped out by his marauding soldiers as they swept from the steppes of Mongolia, across the Volga River to Russia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East in the 1100s and 1200s. Millions […] more

By Philip Park, MD of PCS Acknowledgement is food for the human soul. Without it, we shrivel and contract. With it, we can experience the joy of being alive. It is the sunlight that allows us to grow and flourish. I’m not talking about insincere flattery. That is always exposed for what it is: the […] more

John Lennon first met Paul McCartney in Liverpool on the 6th July 1957 when John was fronting The Quarrymen. The two were introduced to each other by Ivan Vaughan, then the bass player for The Quarrymen. McCartney showed Lennon how to tune his guitar and sang some songs by Gene Vincent and Little Richard, songs […] more

I have had the pleasure of meeting many brilliant executives in my 30 years as head of PCS, and of course I tend to study their habits and routines. They didn’t get to be executives by accident. They are great leaders. They lead by example, by maintaining a ferocious work ethic and by a natural […] more