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Running on empty 
Juergen Klopp shocked  the world of professional football recently by announcing he would be  leaving his post of manager of Liverpool at the end of the season. What surprised...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Feb 2024
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But he gets results 
That was always the excuse but was the past about to catch up with him? You know the type their motto better to ask forgiveness than permission. Innovative and creative when it came to finding ways...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Feb 2024
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More than one way to lose an argument 
Managers particularly senior managers spend a lot of time in meetings. It’s the way most organisations do business so it is rather surprising that so many managers report finding the experience...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Feb 2024
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The opposite of a dysfunctional team is not a nice team
He was a very nice man but an ineffective leader. She was abrasive, opinionated and intolerant of those less experienced.  Together they frustrated and annoyed the rest of the team.   ...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Feb 2024
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4 days a week
My school maths text book set the following problem. If a boat being rowed by four men can cover a mile in 10 minutes how long would it take a 10 men to row the same distance? The assumption being...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Feb 2024
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Be curious
Tattooed on the arm of every Cnief Executive and Council Leader, Portfolio holder and senior manager.   Be curious, ask the right questions, if the rumours persist investigate...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Feb 2024
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First line managers are both the problem and the solution
  First line managers who don’t look after their people or who don’t know how to look after their people undermine an organisation. First line managers who look after their people enhance an...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Feb 2024
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The Away Day Hell
I’m not talking about team building trust creating rope climbs or raft making. I’m talking about taking the team away from the office to sit all day in a stuffy over heated hotel conference room...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  31 Jan 2024
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Is AI a car crash waiting to happen?
According to a Guardian article self drive cars will be on UK roads by 2026. According to many business analysts organisations are increasingly reliant on AI to make the big business decisions....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jan 2024
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I’m not feeling it today 
 “ They are really annoying especially in the workplace” Joked Jodie Foster famous actor and mentor to a number of young people. “They’re like: ‘  Nah , I’m not feeling it today. I’m...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jan 2024
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SEHP's monthly newsletter
Hi all,   Please find attached a link to the partnership's monthly newsletter, which includes introductions from our two new team members!!   January Newsletter ...
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Madison Roberts
Last updated:  19 Jan 2024
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As cooperative as a dung beetle but not necessarily smarter
Scientists have discovered that dung beetles are the only creatures that cooperate like  humans in moving an object to over come obsticals. (Guardian 17 January). Which presumably reinforces...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Feb 2024
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Of course leadership makes a difference but does it make The difference. 
 “ I’m not afraid of an army of lions lead by sheep. I am afraid of an army of sheep lead by lions.”  Alexander the Great. But maybe he should have been a little afraid.  Poor...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Jan 2024
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When work becomes meaningless 
Her expectation of work experience whilst still at school were high and unrealistic almost comical to my baby boomer generation but typical of generation G . After the first day she came home...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Jan 2024
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I never sleep well on a Sunday 
For an increasing number of people the working week starts on a Sunday evening.That’s when they look at their diary for the weekend ahead. It’s when they start to think about work. What needs to...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Jan 2024
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Operation Crossbow 
I was watching one of those old how we won the Second World War films they always show at Christmas. An early scene in the film shows a security briefing about intelligence reports of the Germans...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Jan 2024
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So why do bullies get promoted? 
Bullies as opposed to weak, indecisive or unpleasant managers got to their position of authority because someone,somewhere thought they would be  a good at management. Did they suddenly become...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jan 2024
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To  Err is AI to recognise it is Human 
Machines don’t lie. Machines don’t make mistakes. Machines don’t steal money. People do. This is the logic of believing machines over humans. As AI becomes an increasing essential component of our...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jan 2024
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Follow from the front 
It sounds like a contradiction but it really just means take what the leader says and apply the underlying values and principles to the circumstances and situation you and your team find your...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  09 Jan 2024
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 What were they really like ?
They were a great leader. Maybe they were once a great leader. They talk and walk and act as if they were a great leader. Were they ever really a great leader?    This type of business...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Jan 2024
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