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Intelligent, clever or smart
The problem with calling AI Artificial Intelligence is humans may increasingly mistake it for human intelligence and defer to it attributing intellectual powers to machines that they don’t have....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Apr 2024
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No experience require but excitement guaranteed
When you’re young, just about to leave school or university isn’t  this exactly what you’re looking for in a first job? This particular recruitment advert was accompanied by a picture of an...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Apr 2024
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Metadata & Asset Discovery - Round 2
Hi All. Thank you for your input into the metadata guidance so far.  In line with your feedback and our most recent session, I have decided to use the blog posts in Knowledge Hub more as a...
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Kathryn Reynolds
Last updated:  23 Apr 2024
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Living Well Inverclyde
Funded by the Scottish Government’s Self-Management: Resilience, Recovery & Development Fund and supported by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, Living Well is a new Lifestyle...
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Bethan Dunsmore
Last updated:  04 Oct 2024
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Internal  relations make the difference
What makes a difference to an organisations success and what makes a difference to a managers effectiveness are the same - internal relations. Strong , positive, supportive internal relationships...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Apr 2024
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I am the Question not the Answer 
Organisations look to leaders for the answers but effective leaders ask questions. Good questions. Good question prompt others to focus on the right things and come up with solutions.  Blair...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Apr 2024
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You’re getting sacked in the morning 
It’s a chant beloved by opposition supporters to taunt rival managers during a bad run of results. It’s even worse if your own supporters join in. Real Madrid supports traditionally wave a white...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Apr 2024
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Resenteeism
Not  every one is lucky enough to love their job but it can’t be good for an organisation to have significant numbers who hate it! Lack of job satisfaction, low morale, a stalled...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Apr 2024
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What she did was wrong but was the punishment too harsh ?
Mavis had been a care worker in this large 60 bedded traditional residential care home for older people for years. She lived just round the corner. She was a middle aged woman with a family who had...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Apr 2024
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“ Do you know how to land this ?” 
Every air craft needs a pilot for take off and landing  These are the difficult bits of flying. It’s the same with organisations the difficult bits are getting lift off, it requires a lot of...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Apr 2024
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When management only pretend to care
There is delegation and then there is abdication. Some organisation refer all complaints made to the Chief Executive (CE) back down the line to the responsible manager. So the complainant can find...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Mar 2024
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Atamis
I am working in collaboration with two other public sector organisations to address current performance issues with the provider, Atamis. We are keen to understand if any other...
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Amy Halkyard
Last updated:  18 Mar 2024
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Odd , unusual and often bizarre behaviour by managers 
  You have heard the story about the famous Rock band who’s manager placed a rider in the band’s contract that they be provided with a a bowl of M & N’s in their dressing room but with no...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Mar 2024
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Naked person on the bus
It’s apparently a surprisingly common occurrence for London Transport. The unusual may not be a surprise even so there is a big difference between identifying the fridge thief and catching the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Mar 2024
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The difference between courteous and helpful 
My recent experience of trying to resolve a problem as a customer has made me realise that the people at the other end of the phone don’t understand the difference between courteous and helpful....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Mar 2024
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Depends how you look at it 
Our financial problems are because we are not competitive and we are not competitive because we are inefficient due to a reluctance to embrace new technology and change working practices. Or our...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Mar 2024
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The problem isn’t AI it’s people
People are teaching AI bad habits. It’s like when your Dad teaches you to drive. People put too much faith in untested technology. People can’t be trusted not to abuse the power and opportunities...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Mar 2024
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No excuses
The football manager who after a disastrous run of results points out that with a relatively small squad, an exceptionally  long list of injuries, including the top score, they have been...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Mar 2024
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I thought my job was safe because no one else would want it.
It was a senior manager the restructuring was presented as more of a reshuffle. The boss said he wanted to move people around. He had done this before in responcse to a criss in one area of the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Feb 2024
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February 2024 SysTime
SysTime is STIG's series of interactive seminars. We are currently working our way through the Systems Thinking Toolkit on gov.uk, and this month we focused on Tool 4 in this guide - Behaviour Over...
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Katie Gronow
Last updated:  22 Feb 2024
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