It’s a slow news day at work and there were no announcements about anything on the company intranet, so a couple of interesting facts for the team at the morning huddle:
It’s Buddha’s birthday today (in Hong Kong & South Korea).
On this day in 1626 a Dutch explorer called Peter Minuit allegedly bought Manhattan for 60 guilders, which works out at about £20. When you think that the average weekly pay for financial sector in Manhattan in 2006 was just under 8½ grand, that’s quite an investment.
(Thanks Wikipedia for those!)
And as it had been a while since I had a "hippy" huddle…
A group of UK charities are launching an appeal today for the humanitarian crisis in Sudan and Chad – one of the first times that so many charities are acting together to tackle a humanitarian crisis. So it’s well worth having a look at the background behind it and donate if you wish.
However, applying Problem Management thinking, it’s worth looking to tackle some of the underlying causes of the conflict, otherwise things will never get better. One of the best ways is to put pressure on your MP & businesses to intervene in Sudan. Intervention can mean many things, but if you’re interested, you can contact your MP through www.parliament.uk and you can apply pressure on other areas through a number of websites such as www.pressureworks.com or www.Oxfam.com etc.
