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Don’t look to football managers for best practice 
Is managing a football club so different to being a senior manager in a Local Authority?Both are challenged to motivate talented individuals. Both have a vision and a plan for the future whilst...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Jun 2020
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I look to football managers for lessons in management 
Football managers like Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho and from a previous generation Alex  Ferguson and Brian Clough are stand out managers with impressive track records. They are extreme...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Jun 2020
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Playing up and Playing down 
Sometimes you have to play up and sometimes play down your abilities. The scene is a golf club, the context a new manager trying to break into a close knit group of colleagues , the method,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Jun 2020
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Big and Scary 
It’s big and it’s scary, it’s in the room and ignoring it won’t make it go away. An Elephant in the Room is an expression to describe a big topic everyone is ignoring, pretending it...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Jun 2020
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More than just a soft machine 
I WAS AT ONE TIME THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES IN A LARGE COMPLEX ORGANISATION. FINANCE, IT, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING FELL WITHIN MY REMIT. THIS LINE MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT REFLECTED THE...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jun 2020
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It doesn’t help that people really don’t like HR.
  Human Resource staff make people behave and they don’t like it. They are the ones that tell you that even if you think the jokes are funny, you still can’t tell sexist, racist or homophobic...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jun 2020
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Sometimes it takes a crisis
When this pandemic is over you will know a lot more about your staff/ managers . A crisis brings out the strength in some and the weaknesses in others. It will not necessarily have been the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jun 2020
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The Art of Winging It
Before you know what you are doing you’re expected to know what you are doing, so you have no choice but to wing it. It happened to me. As part of a cost cutting senior management restructuring...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Jun 2020
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