Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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I'm intrigued by people who get upset by going off topic.
In a conversation, does anyone stop and say, "No, that's not the thing we are talking about."
(Well, I say that but my O.H. does all the time, but that's different.)
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In 1991 when Nevermind came out, the top selling singles in the UK were Everything I do by Bryan Adams, Bohemian Rhapsody, The Shoop Shoop song and I'm Too Sexy.
In 1977, when God Save the Queen and Pretty Vacant came out, the top selling singles were Mull of Kintyre, Don't Give Up On Us Baby by David Soul and Don't Cry for Me Argentina.
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I think I understand your point (chart topping music is often bland and inoffensive), but I'm not sure it is true of Bohemian Rhapsody.
Separately, my kids have recently found Queen and Michael Jackson, so not everyone hates music from decades before they were born.
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When are you going to explain thatichael Jackson was probably abused as a child, and passed that damage on to the next generation. And probably also to a pet monkey?
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You obviously missed my lecture at 9am on that cold Monday morning in November, didn't you, Mr Aspect.
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You gave a lecture on Mambo No. 5?
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I think there is great music in every generation. The problem is it stands to reason you're going to get the current music played more along with the shit, not the "test of time" tracks which stand out in/from previous generations. They're the once which will be played at various events/streams.
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Bohemian Rhapsody might have been shocking in the 70s but pretty accepted by 1991 though. Next few that year were Do the Bartman, Jason Donovan and Chesney Hawkes.
1981 is probably the year when the popular stuff was actually something that sounded new - Human League, Soft Cell and Adam and the Ants.
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So what should I listen to now that is new and shocking and will make me feel old as I dismiss it as simply not music?
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Oasis?
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Schoenberg, Webern, Boulez and Stockhausen, though you might find it hard to dig the beat.
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For me, it's Fred Again. Mega popular, nothing interesting there at all.
Or most UK Drill from the last few years. Makes me feel old anyway.
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UK drill is more like noise. Is it actually popular?
Fred Again appears to be what I was talking about. Gen Z music - definitely music and not noise, but dull.
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Various genres of urban music are pretty outrageous to white middle aged men I guess?
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l like hearing of music I can’t abide. It’s absolutely the way it should be.
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The frequency with which career accountant CFOs get the CEO job.
Surely you want someone who is in some way pretty familiar with the main money making part of the business?
I get they are heavily involved in business planning and strategy as they see the numbers going in an out of the business, but still.
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Yeah it's disturbing not least because it is part of their training as accountants to not understand that you can get paid less by clients if you get more out of them immediately.
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Depends how commercial they are, and in my experience quite a few are - these are the ones that tend to do well in their careers. The stereotypical view of accountants of tech geeks with poor interpersonal skills etc is often not accurate.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
You'd be a pretty bad CFO if you weren't pretty familiar with what was going on in the business.
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I have found that if the person in control of the amount of invoices has no experience of the service that has been provided (or often the fees competitors charge for the same thing), nor of the client relationship, this can end in files being politely transferred to other service providers.
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This is probably part of why the one who cannot be named has been so successful. He's slept on the shop floor for years.
"Nobody bleeds for the King in their castle".
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YEARS!
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It's got to inspire the workforce as well as keeping them on their toes.
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Probably more applicable to tech companies though.
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No, I think it suggests that they have been kicked out.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Sure, I doubt they'd be easy companies to work for, obviously with regards certain positions within them.
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There's a lot more to it than 'being in control of invoices' and having financial skills/training are no barrier to possessing commercial skills.
One example. I used to work for Martin Sorrell, who built WPP Group: before that he was FD of Saatchi & Saatchi.
"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Of course. Just speaking from the experiences I have had when the bean counter gets too much control. I've also seen CEOs who are like children playing in the sandpit, who lose sight of costs. As in literally no one was keeping track of costs.
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During my last spinning of the corporate h-wheel, the pattern was always marketing then chief, up a rung from country to region in marketing, then a chief role, up another rung etc etc.... beancounters just counted beans and suchlike. Some beancounters were nice, some were.... not...
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