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What’s the difference between a football agent and an executive head hunter?
It’s called tapping up in the game an attempt to persuade a player contracted to one team to join another with out first seek the permission of their current employer (Who would of course not...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  10 Jul 2022
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Would you pass the Cultural Competence Test ? 
If your organisation has or aspires to a diverse workforce your managers should be able to demonstrate cultural competence yet most managers would feel I’ll prepared to pass a Cultural...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  10 Jul 2022
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Is it such a good idea to make AI more human? 
Is someone working on ensuring AI understands sarcasm?  Being to literal could be a real problem. On the other hand who wants a sarcastic robot!   
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  04 Jul 2022
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Interviews from Hell 
“It’s 5 p.m. on a Friday. You have been called to an interview for your dream job. In a stunning office thirteen floors above the city below, you are all alone with the man interviewing...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  30 Jun 2022
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Despite the evidence 
“ Throwing money at the problem won’t solve it.” Margaret Thatcher.  NASA disproved that theory in putting a man on the moon. “ Spend alone doesn’t explain differences in performance between ...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  25 Jun 2022
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Just a job, away of putting food on the table and paying the rent/bills 
The pandemic has caused significant numbers of employees to question whether they want to change jobs and do something different. The return to work has reveal previously unrecognised or...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  24 Jun 2022
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Drugs and Driving 
He doesn’t remember anything about the accident. If it was an accident. The boy who was due to go to Oxford but who now struggled to writ his name. His best friend said he was up set. His girl...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  18 Jun 2022
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Do we need a Superhero? 
Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up to the job?  Well what chance us mere managers.  How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was ...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  13 Jun 2022
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Making your mind up 
If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the person describing how to do this considers it to be so...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  11 Jun 2022
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 When managers lose it big time. 
May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  09 Jun 2022
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Exceptionalism
The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up, levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  31 May 2022
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Leadership like a submarine 
Rarely seen, silent on most issues, assumed to be getting on with it, ignoring what’s going on around them, isolated from the rest of the world/organisation. But requiring us to trust them. Not...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  28 May 2022
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So how do your managers treat the cleaners when no one is looking?
A lack of respect and poor treatment. Totally Ignored as if invisible. Subjected to derogatory sexual comments. Sworn at. Treated with contempt. Expected to clean up vomit and spilt wine...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  27 May 2022
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In charge but not in control 
Who is in charge is a question that comes up a lot at work in all types of organisations. At one stage in my management career I was responsible for 83 Nursing and Residential  care Homes....
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  26 May 2022
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The best career advice I have been given
It’s interesting to hear what those at the top of organisations say about the best career advice they were given. Although on reading some of that advice I think if the individual followed it...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  25 May 2022
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Why we use metaphors and when we shouldn’t. 
Metaphors are used to capture attention and explain complex things by comparing them to something familiar to the audience.  The business metaphors chosen often have nothing new to say and are...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  19 May 2022
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Swimming in rough seas
  It’s about working in a difficult environment, finding strong forces working against you and having to use up a lot of energy to make slow progress.  This can happen in any organisation at any...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  17 May 2022
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Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?
In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  09 May 2022
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Gogglebox
People watching other people watch television! Celebrity Gogglebox. People watching celebrities watching television. I read the,”inspiration “ for Gogglebox came from the innovative comedy,The ...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  09 May 2022
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The state of things and status of Queuing 
Queuing is never far from the headlines these days but usually it’s about the waiting lists for NHS operations, the length of waiting times in A&E or the queuing of ambulances outside...
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Blair McPherson
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Last updated:  06 May 2022
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