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Consider this: can we avoid destructive eagerness?

15 Monday Dec 2014

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For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.

Proverbs 1:16

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

Martyn Richard Jones

Remaster for 2026. A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.

I’m not a psychologist, and people who read my blog will know this for sure. But I would like to examine the notion of wanting something so much that, at best, we don’t enjoy it when we obtain it, or worst still, that our eagerness means that we will never get that which we truly want. Continue reading →

Strategy 101 – Ask Martyn – 2026 Mix

14 Tuesday Oct 2014

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Martyn Richard Jones, son of Melbourne Jones and Mary Elizabeth Jones

A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular and significant goal.

As the text books state, the term strategy derives from the Greek word “στρατηγία” (translated into Latin as “strategĭa”), meaning “the art of directing military operations” or in business terms: “the set of actions planned in advance, and used to align the resources and potential of a company to achieve its goals and objectives”.

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Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined up – 2026

10 Friday Oct 2014

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Strategy and Market forces – Get your ducks lined up

Martyn Richard Jones – 2026 Revamp

Let’s now take a brief look at my ‘nine competitive dimensions’  model.

This model will be familiar to some who will readily connect with the inclusion of government as an environmental dimension.

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