Tool-box News and Blog

Do you kill your leads dead in the water?

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Leads are so precious - how do you treat them? Are you able to convert them or do you kill them stone dead? Check out some great tips

Tsar Wars? The Pay Tsar is coming to get you!!

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
I've had problems with the huge salaries CEO's and exectuves get paid for a long time.....and it delighted me to read that America's Pay Tsar is headi...

Young people in China are refusing to take on menial jobs

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Factories in China are facing huge labour shortages. More than half the labour force is made up of kids born between 1980 and 1990 and th...

So is the House of Lords is finally being axed?

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Just read an article from Reuters that plans are afoot to totally abolish the House of Lords....really? ann Sign up for our Power...

Do boards actually give a damn about shareholders?

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
John Berling Hardy suggests they don't. 'Executive remuneration packages have been designed in such a way that no matter what the roll of...

70 million people joined the middle classes in 2009

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
and a further 1 billion expected to become middle class by 2020. An article from Newsweek suggests that Western middle classes are fallin...

Recruitment survey. How employers use Social Networking

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
I guess we already knew that employers were using facebook etc to check out potential employees - but check out these http://www.thecorporate...

Are kids becoming addicted with multitasking technologies

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Watched a show on NZ TV where 6 young girls were parted from their cellphones for TWO HOURS; taken out for coffee and some shopping and they showed vi...

sex.com up for Auction. Purchased in 2006 for $14m!

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Watch that space - it is viewed as the most expensive piece of internet real estate - the site makes an estimated US$15k a day! ann

I'm Sorry. The art (or PR disaster) of apologising

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
Some people never apologise for anything; others apologise for everything....in the news of late we have seen several very public apologies.

Its raining FISH in Australia

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
A town in northern Australia has experienced a downpour (much needed because of serious drought conditions) but sadly it wasn't rain it was FISH!!! Ye...

Alcohol and teenage drivers. A lethal cocktail in NZ't mix!

by Ann Andrews CSP / Tool-box News
The age for driving in NZ is 15 (because of our rural population); we also have a hideous binge drinking culture, especially among our young teenagers...