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There’s a hole in my bucket
If your old enough or young enough you will recall that humorous children’s song “There’s a hole in my bucket “ in which one person comes up with excuses for not completing a simple task starting...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Apr 2025
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The listening organisation
Do you remember that TV. advert that referred to the listening bank  “ Come and talk to the listening bank “. Well some organisation refer to their employee engagement strategy in the same...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Apr 2025
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What Champions League goal tells us about management 
He shoots, he scores. Only he wasn’t supposed to. The instructions from the bench were to cross the ball. It was a wonderful piece of skill. However he had never before scored from a free kick so...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Apr 2025
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Strongman v Strong  man ( or woman)  there’s a difference 
There are many how speak with admiration about strong, decisive leadership. But what is a strong leader? Strong leadership is often a euphemism for authoritarian leadership where dissent is not...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Apr 2025
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So you think you might want to be a manager
An industry magazine approached me to contribute to their “week in the life of a manager” series. I described a typical week, there was wadding through application forms, agreeing a short list and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Apr 2025
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What would be your work superpower?
May be rather than make your body stretch like an elastic band you would like to make budgets stretch. What you’re always running out of is time so it would be useful if you had the power to find...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  03 Apr 2025
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Is your organisation effective or merely efficient?
I started my career in the public sector just as the efficiency v effectiveness debate was warming up. Up until then it was the overriding belief that public services were not like the private...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Mar 2025
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 How to get people to do what you want 
A promising young footballer is snapped up by a top team. He thrives on the quality of plays around him and ends the season top goal scorer beating the clubs long standing record and is called up...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Mar 2025
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Out of touch 
The formula one racing driver Lewis Hamilton recently dismissed his critics as ,”old white men”. From the context of conversation I understand him to be saying that those who objected most...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Mar 2025
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“ Hold the chicken” 
There is a famous scene in the film Five Easy Pieces where Jack Nicholas is seen ordering his breakfast in a roadside dinner. He asks the waitress for toast, she says we don’t do toast. He says you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Mar 2025
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How many ways are there to leave an organisation?
Paul Simon sang about 50 ways to leave your lover but there are not so many ways to leave an organisation. You can retire and retire early, you can be made redundant or accept voluntary redundancy,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Mar 2025
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SCOPHRA
Please check out our web page and introdcutory video on youtube. More to follow. https://www.youtube.com/@SCOPHRA Current SCOPHRA actions are focused in a progressive and collaborative approach...
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Gordon Morrison
Last updated:  17 Mar 2025
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Glory Days 
The Bruce Springsteen song ,” Glory Days “ tells of two encounters with former school friends many years latter. The first is a cheerleader now working as a waitress who was the girl every boy...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Mar 2025
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Simpatico
Simpatico it’s an Italian word to describe someone who you feel you have an instant rapport with because you are like minded. Simpatico in the workplace is the feeling that some one is easy to do...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Mar 2025
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When happiness is not enough
I was happy but sometimes happiness is not enough. I liked the job, the people I worked with and I got on with the boss. I was secure and comfortable in the role. The money was good my partner and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Mar 2025
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The Game Changers 
The coach of the under 8’s team announced which players were in the starting line up.  One of those not selected asked ,” Are we the substitutes ,” The coach replied ,”no you are the game...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Mar 2025
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SysTime this Wednesday
A quick reminder about the session on Wednesday, led by Dr Alex Penn.  This will provide an overview of the participatory systems mapping PSM  method developed by CECAN and give an...
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Mary McKee
Last updated:  10 Mar 2025
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The future of leadership
Someone once tried to convince me that the future was leaderless organisations. That the most successful organisations in the future will not be led by an individual but a small group of senior...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Mar 2025
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Ending “silly” decisions 
“The biggest challenge that I face at work is not managing my team. It is dealing with my boss and senior management.”   My team is regularly informed of senior management decisions and they...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Feb 2025
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Leaders are not like us
Leaders are not like the rest of us they are more ambitious, more ruthless and thicker skinned. They flatter and charm, they are demanding and very good at getting people to do what they want...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Feb 2025
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