May 2012 - Guru Blog

Staff at Torbay Hospital might reasonably have expected to receive some token of thanks from management after winning the prestigious Acute Healthcare Organisation of the Year award at the Health Service Journal awards… and they were not disappointed! Well, that’s not strictly true. As Guru knows all too well, you can’t please everybody...

Image: Rex Features Guru always tells his staff that he will accept nothing less than 100% from them. Sadly, Guru’s approach is not replicated across Britain, as was in evidence at the Manchester GreatCity Games where British athlete Jessica Ennis thought she was competing in the 100m hurdles . The managing director of hurdles has obviously created...

Image: Rex Features Guru is sad to announce that this may be the last Guru post he ever writes. He was checking his CV last night and discovered that he has a computer science degree from Cambridge and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Although his memory of these periods of his life are quite patchy, they were there quite clearly on his CV, alongside...

If, in the afternoon of a working day, like Guru, you feel tired, bored, disillusioned, despairing, like you could burst into tears at any moment, then you might want to consider a new craze sweeping through Sweden: lunchtime clubbing. Started in Stockholm, lunchtime clubbing involves going to a club… at lunchtime. Unlike normal clubbing, at lunchtime...