Tim Lawson: a management consultant specialising in cost reduction and process improvement. Highly experienced in change management and business transformation. 
LinkedIn working with Twitter, and vice versa
Excellent news – LinkedIn and Twitter now working together…
The LinkedIn Blog » Blog Archive LinkedIn works with Twitter, and vice versa «.
Why is efficiency, cost cutting and revenue generating more of a focus in tough times?
I was recently asked “Why is efficiency, cost cutting and revenue generating more of a focus in tough times? Shouldn’t this be good business practice ALL the time?”
This is my answer:
In difficult times, depending on your sector, growing the top line organically can seem like very hard work, even impossible. This means that management teams [...]
Best web sites for news
I was recently asked:
which sites do you visit regularly in order to get the latest news and analysis about economics, finance, markets?
My advice was to not underestimate the power of Twitter for news and current topics. I find that if you are following a reasonable number of the ‘right’ people then news very quickly [...]
Losing experienced people
Do you believe that making experienced staff redundant would help your organisation achieve cost reduction goals?
On the face of it, the last to go in an economic downturn situation should be the highly skilled, experienced resources as they will (should) be:
of great, demonstrable value to the organisation
and would cost an immense amount to replace [...]
PDF tool for removing security
Found a great tool which allows you to remove the security from PDF files. This is very useful when you need to extract the content and the author has locked the document with a password.
See the tool at:
Affordable PDF tools
Wordpress themes
Great sources of Wordpress themes at these sites:
WooThemes

