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Dear Dickhead
Your resignation letter is not the occasion to tell your boss what you really think of them or how you feel about the way the organisation has treated you.   Your line manager is aware you...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  26 sept. 2024
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Does your organisation suffers from a culture of contempt? Try this test.
1 How are experts viewed, trusted and valued or view with suspicion and considered naive ? 2 What is the attitude to Health and Safety, bureaucracy which if not checked undermines...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  25 sept. 2024
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Best ever elevator pitch
An elevator pitch is traditionally a very quick introduction of yourself or your idea designed to create interest for a longer meeting. They usually last around 30 seconds. Elevator pitches...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  23 sept. 2024
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It’s all in the handshake 
A good firm handshake at your interview will creat a positive first impression. A wet fish handshake ,clammy and weak will be off putting. But a “funny” handshake will guarantee you the job. ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  17 sept. 2024
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Thanks for that boring story
The boss has been on an executive communication course. There was the usual stuff about not using management jargon and tailoring the message to the audience but what he seems to have taken away...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  17 sept. 2024
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So you had a Bad day at work  you messed up. 
May be your the MI5 officer who left a confidential terrorist report on the train, the contracts office who quoted the wrong figures resulting in your organisation losing out on a large lucrative...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  17 sept. 2024
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The Power of Phishing
  Phishing remains one of the most prevalent and dangerous cyber threats globally. According to the 2024 Data Breach Investigations Report, phishing attacks continue to play a leading role...
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Tom Walker
Dernière mise à jour:  13 sept. 2024
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Budget Prediction 
This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand it will be easier than next year. Blair McPherson former director , author and blogger www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  09 sept. 2024
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Eating insects is not going to save the planet
It would have a lower environmental impact than conventional meat. However most food products would have a lower impact than meat. The trick is to find an alternative to meat that consumers will...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  06 sept. 2024
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The fixer 
Someone who is skilful at solving problems for others sometimes in away that is not entirely ethical and maybe even dishonest. The Americans in typically blunt fashion refer to the fixer.  A...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  02 sept. 2024
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The girl with the blond hair
A classical poet who as a young man sees a beautiful girl in the street and worships her for the rest of his life without ever seeing her again. Well it was like that I was driving, nearly home, I...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  25 août 2024
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What they say about each other
 The deputy says the boss is incompetent. The boss says the deputy is not as good as he thinks he is. The team member says the boss doesn’t realise what the deputy is saying behind his back...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  20 août 2024
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I had a dream a rather confusing one 
I had a dream ,a rather confusing one,  about the World Health Organisation in which much amusement was had over confusion caused by reference to the abbreviation WHO. Along the lines of that...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  19 août 2024
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Show me your happy face 
It’s the Olympics and in the pool it’s synchronised , now called , artistic swimming. By the way the smile is fake. The participants are supposed to smile to hide the pain. The costumes may be...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  12 août 2024
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Even the president of the United States must sometimes stand naked 
He is a convicted con artist who assumes the identity of his cellmate. It’s a way of laying low from those he owes money to. On release he aims  to hid out at the home of relatives of his...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  02 août 2024
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3 different perspectives
 It’s your average organisation. HR believe if you treat people fairly the organisation will be more productive. Managers question whether HR have their back. And ask their staff not to shoot...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  30 juil. 2024
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Only 3 goals away from a hat trick 
Have you ever received a reference for a candidate that reminded you of the  Roger McGough poem about a rugby player ? The strongest , fastest,  most skilful player to grace a pitch, with...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  29 juil. 2024
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Confidence is over rated give your inner critic a name
Moments of self doubt are normal don’t try and ignore them. This is the advice given to athletes competing at the Olympics by the GB sports psychologist. Even the strongest minded, most confident...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  29 juil. 2024
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Managing in the age of EDI
The different cultural values of ethnic and religious groups  influence the way people expect their manager to behave they also affect the way employees relate to their manager. A managers...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  29 juil. 2024
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Sin of Pride
His best friend at university had surprised every one by joining a monastery. It was a silent order but as a novice he was permitted a visitor once a month. When asked what life was like in the...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  26 juil. 2024
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Ghosts in the machine or why things go wrong 
Ghosts in the machine is a phrase to describe why robots behave in an unexpected way and not as programmed. These ghosts aren’t limited to sci-fi .  Some managers and HR professionals...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  24 juil. 2024
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So you fancy being the new England football manager.
The FA are looking for an exception leader to fill the post of England manager. The advert on their web site is an exercise in brevity.  The job To win a major tournament  ...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  19 juil. 2024
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What is “IT” ? 
You’ve either got it or you haven’t got it. And if you’re trying hard to get it you definitely haven’t got it. What is it?  www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  19 juil. 2024
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Ghost Busters
Rather than explain why they have suddenly lost interest the previously keen recruiter is ghosting you! What happened to doing the decent thing and giving unsuccessful candidates useful feedback?...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  17 juil. 2024
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Workload Management 
The UK has a damaging culture of over work with half of employees working up to four days of unpaid overtime a month. Excessive workloads and unrealistic expectations are undermining motivation ,...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  16 juil. 2024
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Dead Zone 
A loud crash came from the managers office next door. Not for the first time the phone had been hurled at the wall with such force as to smash the plastic casing into  so many pieces even...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  19 juil. 2024
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Management Cliches
Management cliches that are overused and betray a lack of original thought Helpful Treat people like you would like to be treated Yes managers should be more compassionate  Success is 5%...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  12 juil. 2024
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Strategic staircase or stairway to heaven
Led zeppelin called it a stairway to heaven. Managers talk about a Strategic Staircase. The idea is the same it’s about planning for future success, a success that is unlikely to be realised....
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  13 juil. 2024
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Book -smart v Street wise 
If two people applied for the same management post and one had several years of varied and appropriate management experience but no formal management qualifications and the other had an MBA from...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  12 juil. 2024
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People seek simple solutions to complex problems but how realistic is this?
The office would be a happy place if it wasn’t for one individual. If it wasn’t for all this bureaucracy we could do the work quicker and better. Every thing was fine before they changed to this...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  08 juil. 2024
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Sandy Bums 
  Sand in your bits is uncomfortable. Dry sand is easier to brush off than wet ,clingy, sand so let the sun do its work before trying to shake it off.  Away from the beach and back in...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  08 juil. 2024
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Neutrality policy dialogues
Dr Koko Zhou at UCL is working on a project that explores neutrality-policy perspectives through a systems-thinking approach, focusing on environmental neutrality in carbon emissions (net...
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Katie Gronow
Dernière mise à jour:  04 juil. 2024
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When a house is like an organisation
You’ve got the right house but does the furniture fit? It’s a big old house but it has been modernised to a high standard. The kitchen is open plan and big with bi folding doors opening on to a...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  05 juil. 2024
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Grandads are more fun 
Dads are for making you feel safe. Grandads are for Fun. Directors are paternal they are in charge,  in control, giving directions and instructions, having high expectations and can be...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  01 juil. 2024
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Nothing ever happens
 The Martians could landed in the car park and nobody would care so sure are some employees that nothing ever happens to really change things. But that could change now Generation Z are...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  28 juin 2024
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Thanks for the fish
What can dolphins teach us about team work and fun? Dolphin are clever, friendly , eager to please and work well together. In many ways they are like the best version of us apes. Apparently they...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  25 juin 2024
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Slow food, slow service, it’s meant to be that way.
We have come to expect and even demand the service in restaurant to be quick. I am not talking about fast food places I am referring a good quality restaurant not your every day eatery but...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  26 juin 2024
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Peeing in the pool
The pool is your organisation. You know some people are doing it, you just don’t know who or why? “Can’t be bothered “, “No one will notice”, “ Every one does it”. Some even boast  about it....
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  23 juin 2024
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How to Reactivate Inactive Community Members
Dealing with inactive community members is one of the biggest challenges any community manager will face, and it can be the make or break time for the continuation of the community.  As the...
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Michael Norton
Dernière mise à jour:  11 juin 2024
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How SyFi  helps us understand leadership 
  The fact that it is a spaceship and not an office, the future and not the present, an alien world not our  own,  turns a rather dry review of leadership styles into an...
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Blair McPherson
Dernière mise à jour:  10 juin 2024
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