June 2012 - Guru Blog

Image: Rex Features According to the Guardian, coffee is the drink of choice for high achievers . Apparently, 77% of senior managers choose coffee over tea and 70% of high earners like coffee more than tea. Those are some compelling statistics. Guru has taken this to mean that drinking coffee makes you successful and that presumably more coffee makes...

Life can be difficult when you’re very attractive, good at singing and also very good at your job - Guru knows this all too well! So it proved for fellow over-achiever Erika Bonilla who is suing the FBI, claiming she’s been harassed because she’s so good looking and good at singing . All Guru’s readers will now have left the...

Is every seventh email you get about some juicy gossip? If it isn’t tell your colleagues to get more interesting lives, because it should be, according to the Daily Mail . Guru estimates that he’s received about seven emails about gossip in his entire career - maybe he should start talking to his colleagues. They all seem so boring though;...

According to the new CIPD chief, Peter Cheese, “ HR is key to restoring trust in banking ”. Guru was surprised to hear this, having previously suspected that HR was a very tiny part of what is needed to restore trust in banking, but wants to do what little he can to contribute. So, here goes: trust banking. Read More...