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Grow your own
Recruitment and retention for management and executive posts has become a big issue of late. In response organisations are reviewing their approach to Succession planning. The traditional focus on...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Tach 2023
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When to stick and when to twist
“He would say something to you on a Monday, contradict himself on a Friday and you would believe both.” Martin O’Neil on Brian Clough . Management is full of contradictions. A great...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
11 Tach 2022
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The wit and wisdom of a manager
Some people like to quote Winston Churchill me I find the sayings of Brian Clough more relevant to management. He was opinionated - we talk about it for twenty minutes and then...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
10 Tach 2022
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GIS and Admin Supervisor
Job title: GIS and Admin Supervisor Job reference: REQ01144 Provide GIS support for the authority by creating, maintaining, sourcing and interpreting spatial data. To act as systems...
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Swetha Kallaganad
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
10 Tach 2022
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The New Augmented Workforce
A couple of years ago I visited the BMW-MINI Production Plant, at Cowley, Oxford. This was arranged as part of our theme on ‘innovation’ for Warwick Business School’s Innovation network. The...
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Stephen Dale
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
07 Tach 2022
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Bad Organisations
I like working for my boss. I like the people I work with. I like the work I do. I don’t like the organisation I work for. It use to be said that people leave managers not organisations. Recently...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
02 Tach 2022
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Camden HAF Summer 2022 video
Hi all, Please click the below link to see the Summer HAF 2022 video from the London Borough of Camden. Young Camden Foundation | HAF Summer 2022 - YouTube
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Wathsala Senadheera
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
02 Tach 2022
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An Introduction to DLUHC's PFI Team
Lewis Worthington - PFI Portfolio Lead Lewis moved into the Civil Service after spending ten years managing PFI Contracts in the private sector for SSE Contracting. His final role for SSE was as...
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Faye Duffy
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Mawrth 2023
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The clue is in the Chinese proverb
It starts off as a possible missing person enquiry. Then as is often the case suspicion falls on the partner. Is this a murder investigation? The husband is asked to recount the events leading...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
16 Medi 2022
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The gate at the bottom of our yard.
When I was very young, pre school, I had a best friend who lived across the narrow alleyway behind our house. Every day at some point but usually after breakfast and lunch I would ask my mum...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Medi 2022
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From Rotherham with Love
Did you ever fantasise about being a spook. Working for the service. If you did I bet you didn’t think it would be like working for the LA! You would have to sign the Official Secrets Act but...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Medi 2022
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Knowledge Hub upgrade and redesign
After months of hard work, we’re thrilled to announce that the newly upgraded and refreshed Knowledge Hub is due to go live soon. On the morning of Monday 19 September 2022, the updated...
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
06 Medi 2022
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A new meaning to hitting the target
You may have already come across this but for the half of the population not familiar with male public toilets there are urinals with a difference in some locations. These urinals...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
06 Medi 2022
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Cost of living crisis
There are reports of employers giving their staff hardship grants, low cost meals and vouchers to buy their children’s school uniforms. Others have set up food banks, provided salary advances,...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
02 Medi 2022
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The obsessive manager
The head hunter is singing the praises of an individual they think is an ideal candidate for the Chief Executive vacancy. There is of course an impressive track record but it’s the personality...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
29 Awst 2022
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Community Safety Charter
The Community Safety Charter is a means by which Neighbourhood Watch members, local residents, businesses, and organisations, agree to do whatever they can together to provide an environment...
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Maggie Lewis
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
29 Awst 2022
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The boy and his dog
In a post apocalyptic world a boy and a dog wander the wasteland scavenging. The boy/teenager in the absence of parents or any adult is uneducated and governed only by basic instincts,...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
15 Awst 2022
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Head Hunters tips
Your application form gets you the interview your interview gets you the job. The difference between a CV and an application form is that the application form is written specifically for the...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Awst 2022
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Big personality Big ideas
This larger than life person is interesting therefore what they have to say is interesting. Whilst this doesn’t follow people frequently behave as if it did. “ People don’t believe in...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
08 Awst 2022
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Is being ambitious still a good thing?
I set my self a target to be a Director by the time I was 50. According to research by the Family and Work Institute in the US most people stop jostling for promotion at 35 coinciding with...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
07 Awst 2022
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Powered by People
The corporate slogan prominently displayed on the recruitment advert was Powered by People. So what does this bring to mind, a treadmill or the John Lennon song Power to the People ? Do you...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
02 Awst 2022
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An innovative way to hear everyone's voice
In a world that has many institutions where culture and tradition may exclude women from contributing ideas, opinions and insights, Ketso can overcome these barriers. It is a tool...
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Dr Joanne Tippett
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
30 Gorff 2022
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Seek out the reluctant candidate
Seek out the reluctant candidate who needs to be cajoled into accepting the position because they are not driven by naked ambition, they are not over confident, they will not see dissent as...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
26 Gorff 2022
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My Story
A good story gets you an interview, expanding convincingly on that story gets you the post. I didn’t always want to be a manager let alone a senior manager. In fact when I started out I...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
25 Gorff 2022
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Top Gun and the Maverick Manager
Thundering rock music, super sonic jet fighters and a central character who is a rebel with a need for speed, Top Gun gives a lot of bangs for your bucks. But why are senior management...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
21 Gorff 2022
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Diversity - The Phoney Version -looks different but isn’t
The image is of someone frantically bailing out a leaky boat whilst water continues to pore in through the holes in its hull. There is a lot of effort but it doesn’t make much difference. This...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
25 Gorff 2022
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Learn how to lose
It’s Wimbledon so the sports pages have an interview with John McEnroe. He who was as famous for his on court tantrums as his skills with a racket. He was a serial winner who said he had to...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
11 Gorff 2022
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What’s the difference between a football agent and an executive head hunter?
It’s called tapping up in the game an attempt to persuade a player contracted to one team to join another with out first seek the permission of their current employer (Who would of course not...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
10 Gorff 2022
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Would you pass the Cultural Competence Test ?
If your organisation has or aspires to a diverse workforce your managers should be able to demonstrate cultural competence yet most managers would feel I’ll prepared to pass a Cultural...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
10 Gorff 2022
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Is it such a good idea to make AI more human?
Is someone working on ensuring AI understands sarcasm? Being to literal could be a real problem. On the other hand who wants a sarcastic robot!
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
04 Gorff 2022
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Exempt planning fee
Hi, I have a dispute with my local authority regarding free go fee. I submitted a planning application for 3 dwellings which was refused and I have now submitted a new application with additional...
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Richard Davey
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
30 Meh 2022
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Interviews from Hell
“It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You have been called to an interview for your dream job. In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
30 Meh 2022
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Despite the evidence
“ Throwing money at the problem won’t solve it.” Margaret Thatcher. NASA disproved that theory in putting a man on the moon. “ Spend alone doesn’t explain differences in performance between ...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
25 Meh 2022
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Just a job, away of putting food on the table and paying the rent/bills
The pandemic has caused significant numbers of employees to question whether they want to change jobs and do something different. The return to work has reveal previously unrecognised or...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
24 Meh 2022
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Drugs and Driving
He doesn’t remember anything about the accident. If it was an accident. The boy who was due to go to Oxford but who now struggled to writ his name. His best friend said he was up set. His girl...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
18 Meh 2022
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University of Winchester Physio Programme
University of Winchester Physiotherapy Revalidation Stakeholder Event The Physiotherapy Programme will be revalidating during 2023 and as part of this process we will be holding a...
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katie castle
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
17 Meh 2022
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Do we need a Superhero?
Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up to the job? Well what chance us mere managers. How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was ...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
13 Meh 2022
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Making your mind up
If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the person describing how to do this considers it to be so...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
11 Meh 2022
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When managers lose it big time.
May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Meh 2022
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Exceptionalism
The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up, levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
31 Mai 2022
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Leadership like a submarine
Rarely seen, silent on most issues, assumed to be getting on with it, ignoring what’s going on around them, isolated from the rest of the world/organisation. But requiring us to trust them. Not...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
28 Mai 2022
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So how do your managers treat the cleaners when no one is looking?
A lack of respect and poor treatment. Totally Ignored as if invisible. Subjected to derogatory sexual comments. Sworn at. Treated with contempt. Expected to clean up vomit and spilt wine...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
27 Mai 2022
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In charge but not in control
Who is in charge is a question that comes up a lot at work in all types of organisations. At one stage in my management career I was responsible for 83 Nursing and Residential care Homes....
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
26 Mai 2022
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The best career advice I have been given
It’s interesting to hear what those at the top of organisations say about the best career advice they were given. Although on reading some of that advice I think if the individual followed it...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
25 Mai 2022
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Why we use metaphors and when we shouldn’t.
Metaphors are used to capture attention and explain complex things by comparing them to something familiar to the audience. The business metaphors chosen often have nothing new to say and are...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
19 Mai 2022
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Swimming in rough seas
It’s about working in a difficult environment, finding strong forces working against you and having to use up a lot of energy to make slow progress. This can happen in any organisation at any...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
17 Mai 2022
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Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?
In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Mai 2022
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Gogglebox
People watching other people watch television! Celebrity Gogglebox. People watching celebrities watching television. I read the,”inspiration “ for Gogglebox came from the innovative comedy,The ...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Mai 2022
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The state of things and status of Queuing
Queuing is never far from the headlines these days but usually it’s about the waiting lists for NHS operations, the length of waiting times in A&E or the queuing of ambulances outside...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
06 Mai 2022
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It’s Shangri-la and you are the legend at its centre
“ Where everyone of us has the chance to make a mark and shape the future. Where senior managers are a catalyst for this change. Energising the people who can make it happen. At the...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
07 Meh 2022
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