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Some of the least effective managers are also the busiest 
Either because they don’t delegate appropriately or find it too difficult to prioritise but mostly because they attend the wrong meetings. They attend meeting based on whose chairing rather...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Apr 2021
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How to keep your group engaged with a virtual event
COVID-19 has made a dramatic impact on conferences and in-person events being cancelled to protect people and "flatten the curve" of this virus, which is the right thing to do. As we...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  25 Feb 2021
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ZAP! WHACK! BIFF! BAM! BOFF! 
The new Batman will be black DC comics has revealed. Can he do for your organisation what he is going to do for Gotham City? Or will it be Wonder Woman who returns to save the day? Does...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Feb 2021
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A CDO chat with Kit Collingwood
As part of an occasional series, here’s a video of a conversation I had today with Kit Collingwood, Deputy Director for Digital and Customer Services at the Royal Borough of Greenwich. Kit...
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Dave Briggs
Last updated:  16 Feb 2021
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Bridgerton 
It’s trending. It’s on t.v. It’s about the life’s and loves of the aristocracy in Regency England. So what’s it got to do with diversity and inclusion in your organisation?  Bridgerton a...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 Jan 2021
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Welcome to EPHT
Hello all and welcome to the Environmental Public Health Tracking (EPHT) Community of Practice (CoP) on Knowledge Hub. The work shown in this CoP is managed by the Environmental...
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Neelam Iqbal
Last updated:  29 Jan 2021
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This is muscular management 
The macho  leadership style, the emphasis on competition rather than cooperation, the focus on cost/efficiency, the obsession with numbers (measurement and data ) the belief that the end...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 May 2022
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Digging Managers out of holes 
Wisdom is the greatest quality a manager can have. The trouble is it is not easily or quickly gained. It comes over time from experience. For the inexperienced manager help is on offer...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Jan 2021
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Big Jack on Management 
I have been watching a film about Jack Charlton who died in 2020. The film focused on Jack Charlton the manager. For a decade he inspired  a modest out fit to consistently over perform. Former...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Dec 2020
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It’s no exaggeration to call this torture 
It’s harder than most people would imagine to sack staff who have abused residents. Hard to uncover the abuse and harder to put together a strong enough case to get a dismissal.   The...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  21 Dec 2020
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Big Boy Pants 
 In the USA they call trousers “pants”. In our family big boy pants refers to the underwear that my 3 year old grand son wears as part of his toilet training. Just another example of the ...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Dec 2020
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What aren’t they telling us?
Who killed JFK, did the Americans really land on the Moon, what is the government covering up about Area 13, and what aren’t the board telling us? As with all conspiracy theories the idea that...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Dec 2020
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The Chateau 
If local government were a building it would be a crumbling stately home , still grand but decrepit now in parts,  it’s gardens over grown and floor boards warped. Makes you wonder does it...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 Nov 2020
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If you find yourself in a hole-call it a swimming pool
My dad dug a big whole whilst levelling the back garden and decided he would call it a swimming pool. The new build house had a steeply slopping back garden. Never one to pay someone...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Nov 2020
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How to stop your virtual meetings from being so boring
We have all gone through this phase during the first lockdown about how great it was to have our meetings virtually. But as time has progressed, there seem to be virtual meetings for...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  19 Nov 2020
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The thrill of the tight rope
  I was once carpeted by my boss for a piece I had written in a local journal published by and on behalf of the voluntary and not for profit sector. The leader had had a word with him....
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Nov 2020
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Don’t be a bad loser( like Donald Trump)
"Show me a good loser and I'll show your a loser." So said Graeme Souness.    Jose Mourinho muttered about high level conspiracies, Alex Ferguson like to motivate his team by...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Nov 2020
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Every senior manager has a fantasy
  Every senior manager has a leadership fantasy but they’re to embarrassed to tell you. They do however give clues.  ...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Nov 2020
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The average 3 year old is getting smarter
 Many parents and every grand parent thinks their child is very bright for their age. This has always been the case but now there is evidence to support the claim. It appears the average 3...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Oct 2020
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Trust , Unity and Progress
  They sound like a communist party slogan from the soviet era. Something like,  Trust in the party and the United workers will achieve great Progress. They are in fact the easy to remember...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Oct 2020
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