Something for the weekend
On the run
Five members of staff from the Birmingham office of property and construction consultancy Wakemans will be donning track suits and running shoes for the Five for Fifty Run in Canon Hill Park on Sunday (18 September).
The Wakemans team includes James Shelley, Adrian Cartwright, David Vice, Sandeep Sunner and Steve Howard, who will all be running 5km to raise money for to the Foundation for Conductive Education.
About 200 teams of up to five people are expected to take part and the overall fundraising target is £50,000.
Take a look at the photo (see pictured) which accompanied this press release, though. Who forgot their kit, then?
Hacked off
It may be wrong and it's certainly illegal but one in two wi-fi users in Stafford still access someone else's wireless internet network without permission, according to a new survey from The PC Support Group.
Wi-fi 'piggybacking' has been around since the dawn of wireless computing, with people obtaining free web access by using networks which have been left unsecure because the owner has not set a password.
Over a half (56 per cent) of the 50 businesses surveyed in the Stafford area by The PC Support Group admits to the practice.
What's more, almost one in three people (35 per cent) believe there's nothing wrong with it. You terrors!
On the move
Wait right there! Moving a business leader to a senior role abroad is almost certainly doomed to failure unless the company can keep the employee's partner happy. Leadership performance acceleration company First100 - who you may remember from press releases like the "Seven Deadly Business Sins" – says that "emotional fall-out" is often overlooked in favour of sorting the logistics of a move.
No argument here, although the caveman in us always liked the quote attributed to football manager John Gregory on such things: "In my day it was a case of 'pack the tea chests, love – we're moving.'"
