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In this months issue
 Diggory's New Year Gift to you50% Discount on the Yellow Brick For the month of January, we are reducing Diggory's Membership Fee by 50% for the Yellow Brick Package; a impressive saving of £110.00. read more .I Never Knew That About LondonExtracts from Christopher Winn's Book Fleet Prison - Farringdon Street was build over the River Fleet in 1737, close to London's first purpose-build prison, the Fleet Prison. John Donne, the poet Dean, was imprisoned there in 1601 for marrying a minor. The author John Cleland (1710 - 89) wrote the first pornographic novel, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, better known as Fanny Hill, while serving time there for being in debt. The Fleet prison was taken down in 1846 and replaced by the Congregational Memorial Hall, erected in 1872. The labour party was founded here on 27 February 1900, during the Trades Union Congress. .Diggory Client TasksA fraction of the more typical tasks we completed for our clients this month:
Ask the ExpertsWhether you have questions on IT, efficiency or business travel our experts will have the answers: Andrew Collins , London Q: I am a director of my own IT company and currently I have piles of papers on my desk, my PA seems to know where everything is, but as you say in your Spectrum Overview , this clutter is distracting and I want to clear it away and create some order....read more Peggy Hendersen, Geneva Q: Is there any justification for the difference in taxes and fees? read more Melanie Parker, London Q: I’m a small business starting out, how can I keep my costs down? read more Eye on LondonNew Restaurant Review 'Harden's', the gastronomes bible review's Dean Street Townhouse. Dean Street Townhouse W1 In the heart of Soho, a clubby Soho House group dining room serving simple English food realised to a consistently high standard; a first-day visit found an establishment already remarkably well into its swing. How does Richard Caring do it? As restaurant groups get bigger, there is – nearly two decades of Harden’s research suggests – an almost invariable tendency for them to get worse. Not so, it seems, with that Croesus of our times, Mr Caring, whose ever-growing empire includes Scott’s, Sheekey’s, The Ivy, Annabelle’s. Only a few weeks ago, he opened a second Caprice, in New York, which – on the basis of the FT’s recent review – is already well up to the standards of the famously steady St James’s original. read more .Forward this email
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Welcome subscriber HAPPY NEW YEAR! In this months issue we talk about New Year Resolutions and how Diggory can help you to achieve them for 2010. We also share with you a 50% discount on the Yellow Brick Package for the month of January. There are some wonderful exhibitions and fairs in London this month; we highlight three of the best. Also we show you the benefits of a lightening strike intervention - tackling your organisational habits with our Spectrum Efficiency Programme. Finally our very own contributor, Roger Collis, author, and columnist for the New York Times and CNN, writes about the 'a la carte' culture' of our Airlines. Happy New Year from the Diggory Team!
new year resolutions
Recent research shows that while 52% of participants in a resolution study were confident of success with their goals, only 12% actually achieved them. It's part of the New Year ritual – an annual attempt to start afresh and turn over a new leaf. But making resolutions is a near pointless exercise, psychologists say. We break them, become dispirited in the process and finally more despondent than we were before. So what can you do?
Log onto our website and pick the Package that best suits your lifestyle and make this day the day you get your life back. Diggory
lightning strike
'One of our most popular packages is the Spectrum Efficiency Package, a one off, 'lightning strike' where Diggory coaches you to become more efficient for the year ahead'. Say's Dee, founder of Diggory Lifestyle. "Dee has brought something to my business that has added immediate and tangible value. We only fully appreciated the scope that existed for efficiency gains once Dee had taken us through the clear and pragmatic Spectrum Programme. We are in the early days of applying the new processes, and making them habit, but already I feel that we are better organised, administered and that Dee has given us the operational platform from which to continue to build our business and take it to the next level." Chris Larkin, Director of Pure Sales Consulting Limited 'It is the most common business paradox, says Dee. Highly-educated, well-trained professionals know their business inside out. They solve the most complex problems every day, demonstrating outstanding capability and commitment. Yet for all their expertise, they often remain stressed, fighting the clock, and their workload in a desperate attempt to balance the demands of their personal and professional lives. The problem is this – they may know how to do the job, but not how to work efficiently and effectively. Like most people in business, they concentrate on the tasks in hand and ignore the daily organisation of working in an office and running a business and personal life.' Diggory's Top 5 Tips to increase your efficiency:
With the ‘Spectrum Efficiency Programme', we can help you with all of this, it comprises of Seven Layers of Learning™. Conducted in your office or at home, we will take you through this outstanding process and ensure we bring you its full benefits including:
Great Strengths, can lose their impact without a strong platform of organisational skills and processes”, so our objective, through the Seven Layers of Learning™ is to give you a day back a week. read more
Article: A la carte too far?
Read this informative piece by Diggory's own contributor Roger Collis, author and columnist for the New York Times and CNN. Where on earth will it end? Is a la carte pricing just the flavor of the month or the magic bullet of the decade? Or are the so-called ‘legacy’ carriers simply grasping at straws? I was strutting my usual stuff at an ‘a la carte airline pricing’ conference the other day – that the airlines had only themselves to blame for the disastrous fall in premium cabin sales (10 percent of passengers but 40 percent of revenues) by failing to understand that their ‘branding,’ their class system as it evolved over the past 40 years, had got out of sync with the evolving needs of business passengers, et cetera – when news came through that British Airways plans to make travelers pay to choose their seats before they fly. So you’ve chosen a fare – based upon time and class of travel, and how flexible you need to be – and now BA has the chutzpah to charge cattle-class passengers £10 each way for flights within Europe and £20 long-haul; £60 in long-haul; and another £50 in an emergency exit row. How about auctioning prime seats..read more
Exhibition at Tate Britain
Our pick of the best exhibitions and fairs this month: Tate Britain, Millbank, London 0207 887 8888 www.tate.org.uk Chris Ofili’s intensely coloured and intricately ornamented paintings are on show at Tate Britain in a major survey of the artist’s career that brings together over 45 paintings, as well as pencil drawings and watercolours from the mid 1990s to today. One of the most acclaimed British painters of his generation, Ofili won the Turner Prize in 1998 and represented Great Britain at the 50th Venice Biennale in 2003. 27 January - 16 May Adults £10.00
The Real van Gogh: The Artist and His Letters
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London 0844 209 1919 www.royalacademy.org.uk The Royal Academy of Arts presents a landmark exhibition of the work of Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890). The focus of the exhibition will be the artist's remarkable correspondence. Over 35 original letters, rarely exhibited to the public due to their fragility, will be on display, together with around 65 paintings and 30 drawings that express the principal themes to be found within the correspondence. The first major Van Gogh exhibition in London for over 40 years, this will be a unique opportunity to gain an insight into the complex mind of Vincent Van Gogh. 23 January - 18 April. Adults £12.00
The Kensington Art & Antiques Fair
Kensington Town Hall, Horton Street, London 01825 744 074 www.penman-fairs.co.uk For all those keen to get out of the Christmas and New Year doldrums, Kensington Fair offers a variety of stands; traditional furniture contrasts with Contemporary Art, and collectable silver, ceramics, glass jewellery and other accessories bring a colourful mix to this friendly fair. For 2010 the Fair will mainly have traditional high quality collectable items, some furniture and 20th century pieces and will be concentrated on the Ground Floor. 7 - 10 January £5.00
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