From The Sunday Times:
"When you go on holiday with your family, should you stay in touch with the office or leave all your work gizmos behind?
"A survey by Stark Brooks Associates, a recruitment consultant, showed 97% of holidaying business people took their mobile phones and 68% either a laptop or a Blackberry. Just over a third would not consider staying in a resort without wireless access."
"When you go on holiday with your family, should you stay in touch with the office or leave all your work gizmos behind?
"A survey by Stark Brooks Associates, a recruitment consultant, showed 97% of holidaying business people took their mobile phones and 68% either a laptop or a Blackberry. Just over a third would not consider staying in a resort without wireless access."
What ever happened to taking a proper break? What about helping your Number Two to develop by leaving them in charge? Does taking the Blackberry with you really mean you are more relaxed when you go away? and more relaxed when you come back?
RELEVANT LINKS
The Sunday Times article: Me, My Other Half and the Blackberry
Your Mobile Addiction! - blog entry
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7 comments:
Hi,
I am a great believer that you pay good people to manage a business while you are away and empower them.
We take an old mobile for emergency use for the manager in charge only.
If people email it is not urgent and can be dealt with on your return...
I am a self confessed "Crack Berry" addict and lock mine in the safe before my hols!
Even with the best team possible, there will still be a time when the firm has to pull all the stops out. This means that, without the means to plug into the network, you're left trying to use the "business centre" in the hotel. Not ideal for confidential business deals, nor will it hold your records.
My advice is to take your notebook and phone, but remember that they are your tools and not vice versa, therefore you only ever switch them on if you've been contacted by your assistant through the hotel channels, and it better be for a damn good reason.....
This should see you through, and you'd have to be a sad, sad sausage being on your pc/blackberry for no good reason, instead of out on the beach, or in the art gallery with your loved ones.
I am cuurently in Gaborone in Botswana and support the angst that trying to use hotel WiFi can cause you.
And the good old BlackBerry isn't a great fan of being in such foreign climes (Malawi last week).
Robert
I am cuurently in Gaborone in Botswana and support the angst that trying to use hotel WiFi can cause you.
And the good old BlackBerry isn't a great fan of being in such foreign climes (Malawi last week).
Robert
I am cuurently in Gaborone in Botswana and support the angst that trying to use hotel WiFi can cause you.
And the good old BlackBerry isn't a great fan of being in such foreign climes (Malawi last week).
Robert
Even with the best team possible, there will still be a time when the firm has to pull all the stops out. This means that, without the means to plug into the network, you're left trying to use the "business centre" in the hotel. Not ideal for confidential business deals, nor will it hold your records.
My advice is to take your notebook and phone, but remember that they are your tools and not vice versa, therefore you only ever switch them on if you've been contacted by your assistant through the hotel channels, and it better be for a damn good reason.....
This should see you through, and you'd have to be a sad, sad sausage being on your pc/blackberry for no good reason, instead of out on the beach, or in the art gallery with your loved ones.
Hi,
I am a great believer that you pay good people to manage a business while you are away and empower them.
We take an old mobile for emergency use for the manager in charge only.
If people email it is not urgent and can be dealt with on your return...
I am a self confessed "Crack Berry" addict and lock mine in the safe before my hols!
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