March 2012 - Guru Blog

Image: Rex Features Relationships at work can cause problems. Australian tennis player Bernard Tomic found this week that having your nearest and dearest around at work isn’t always entirely desirable. Tomic’s father, who is also his coach, was making his displeasure with his son’s performance quite clear during Tomic’s quarter...

Image: Rex Features The Telegraph has reported on the latest craze in teambuilding : sheep herding. According to a glowing article, Raising the Baa helps teams bond and develop teamwork through herding sheep into pens. The Telegraph goes on to quote co-owner of the Raising the Baa, Chris Farnsworth, who says “This event helps groups of people...

Big, fat, whale-of-a-model Ananda Marchildon has won her case against model agency Elite , who had demanded in March 2010 that the 5ft-11-inch-tall Marchildon reduce her hips to “no more than 90 cm at the end of June.” Marchildon, who presumably spent the intervening months bingeing on Easter eggs, spectacularly failed to slim down, reporting...

Image: Rex Features The University of Bedfordshire has conducted research into the reasons why women cry at work . Professor Gail Kinman has interviewed 59 women who have cried at work to find out why they’ve cried, how they felt about it and how they thought it had impacted on their careers. Guru wouldn’t have liked to be the one conducting...

Image: Rex Features Guru was shocked to read that only 22% of adults in England have sufficient maths skills to pass GCSE maths with a decent grade. This is absolutely astonishing - anybody familiar with football or the X Factor will be aware that this means that anywhere between 88% and 999,978% of people lack these basic maths skills. Employers could...