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Catch 22
This week’s featured publication is The Grocer, you know why. Milo Minderbinder buys eggs for seven cents and sells them for five cents. Clearly this is good for the customer and good for the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Apr 2013
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Mr Angry has got me all wrong
Morrissey and other members of the band the Smiths told journalists they were very unhappy that the Prime Minister had chosen one of their songs for his desert island disks. You can see their...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Apr 2013
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They want me to apply for my own job
The Civil Service are doing it, Local Authorities have done it and the NHS will be doing it. Public sector organisations are cutting the size of the workforce by reducing the head count at each...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Apr 2013
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You can call me Blair
Are first names just for friends? It used to be that someone would ask you if they could call you by your first name. Now everyone seems to automatically assume they can be on first name terms....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Apr 2013
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Measles, the Media and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
In the last few weeks we have seen serious outbreaks of a potentially fatal, vaccine preventable disease in South Wales the North West and the North East and it looks like 2012’s record number of...
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Sean Derrig
Last updated:  05 Apr 2013
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The Great KHub Bake-off
As a keen baker, I found myself enthralled by the most recent series of the Great British Bake-off. In case you’ve never seen it, it’s an amateur baking competition judged by the great Mary Berry...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  02 Apr 2013
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Eyes wide shut
The restaurants are full. There are no spaces in the car park. The cinema is packed out and they’re queuing out the door at Nanado’s. I don’t see any evidence of people being hard up. The...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Apr 2013
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Railways in the 60's, Libraries today,Hospitals tomorrow
  50 years ago Dr Beeching reshaped our railways which meant shrinking them. Making cuts to save money, in the belief that they had had their day, were no longer needed and that people...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Mar 2013
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Counci's bin survey; Asks "Are you gay?"
Managers have only themselves to blame for being ridiculed in the national press after putting sexual orientation in a questionnaire asking people how they dispose of their rubbish. A council...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Mar 2013
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Managerialism
The academics may consider it a neutral expression but doctors, nurses, social workers and teachers use it as a term of abuse. It stands for people the professionals consider detached from...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Mar 2013
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Changes afoot!
Just a quick note to let you know that we will be changing the styling of notifications from Khub this evening so you may notice a change tomorrow. It applies to all system notifications. We hope...
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Michael MacAuley
Last updated:  21 Mar 2013
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The Gravy Train
“You don’t know what you’re doing” they chant from the terraces and it would appear many of those in Government and on the boards of NHS trusts agree. Why else would they make such expensive use...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  19 Mar 2013
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Translating the local to the national: Forums for Regulatory Services
Sector-led improvement is gathering momentum. A lot has happened since the LGA published 'Taking the lead' in February 2011. Councils are embracing sector led improvement with real commitment –...
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Ian Leete
Last updated:  18 Mar 2013
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Death is easy. Local Government is hard
  This morning Brian Jarman told BBC’s Today programme that the data indicates 20,000 hospital deaths could have been avoided over the past ten years if we’d acted on what the data is...
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Mike Thacker
Last updated:  16 Mar 2013
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Is it because we're not funny? ... a blog for international women's day
  I 'm a woman who started out on the front foot. I went to an all girls' school and was one of the few women on my maths degree course - because as the theory goes, there were no boys in...
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Sarah Jennings
Last updated:  08 Mar 2013
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How to be successful at interview
We were in a hotel bar the night before the interview, me, the three other shortlisted candidates and the recruitment consultant. This very experience former director who was advising the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Mar 2013
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LACEF Conferences
Or how we began networking best practices for local authority debt collection... In the beginning LACEF (or rather the inhouse bailiff network as it was originally called) was an idea to...
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Barrie Minney
Last updated:  11 Mar 2013
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WWW… That’s Wonderful Women Worldwide
In honour of International Women’s Day tomorrow, I wanted to dedicate a blog to all the wonderful women I know. And I know quite a lot… I have to start with people who have nurtured, influenced...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  07 Mar 2013
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WWW… That’s Wonderful Women Worldwide
In honour of International Women’s Day tomorrow, I wanted to dedicate a blog to all the wonderful women I know. And I know quite a lot… I have to start with people who have nurtured, influenced...
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Liz Copeland
Last updated:  07 Mar 2013
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Interim managers have they had their day?
The imperitive for restructuring, downsizing or merging be it local councils or NHS Trusts looked like a boost for the careers of interim managers. After all if you are thinking of doing away...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Mar 2013
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