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Who do you trust more your Dr or your MP ?
That is a simplified version of the government’s attempt to take back power from doctors. It has parallels with local government. How do you get the balance right between the professionals, the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Oct 2020
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All or Nothing 
Reading the biography of a very successful leader is often disappointing if you are seeking to learn how to replicate their success. Interviews with those who worked closely with such...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Oct 2020
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Your team doesn’t need you when they’re winning
You earn your money as a manager when the team are going through a difficult patch. When performance dips, when morale is rock bottom and confidence low that’s when your experience and know how...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Oct 2020
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A Hard Rain 
When Bob Dylan wanted to warn people of the increased risk of a nuclear war he wrote a song , A hard rains a -gonna fall, which tells of the destruction from the fallout of The Bomb. When the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 Sept 2020
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Showing you’re annoyed is not the same as making staff scared of you  
Alex Ferguson claims he used his notorious hairdryer treatment no more than 6 or 7 times in his long and successful career. The accounts of former players would indicate it was a lot more but...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Sept 2020
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The Understanding Manager
Everyone wants a supportive manager some one who recognises your value to the team and acknowledges your skill and work ethic, some one who is sympathetic when some difficulty in your personal...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Sept 2020
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Simply the Best 
If you ask a highly successful manager, a great leader what it is that makes them so effective don’t expect to get the answer that those who work with them would give. Even the best often lack...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Sept 2020
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Vanity Projects 
A project that is not justified by cost and effort and whose purpose is to make the instigator look good. The most famous was the USA race with the Soviet Union to put a man on the Moon the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Sept 2020
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The hole in the donut
These managers never seem to focus on the perfect circle. Instead, their first comment calls attention to the inconsequential mistake. They ask for trivial back-up data that you failed to bring...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 Sept 2020
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It’s Complicated 
He drove the car, a reluctant participant in what was a sectarian assassination. First he finds the librarian he fancy’s is the wife of the man they murdered. Then he takes a job working on her...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Sept 2020
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Ginger Rogers’ Annual Appraisal
  Annual appraisals do more harm than good and now it’s ok to say so. Many large companies have dropped Annual Appraisals replacing achievement and reward with support and coaching. One to One...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Aug 2020
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It’s your dream job but there is a catch
It’s your dream job. You have said so publicly and often, which hasn’t gone down well with previous employers. It’s high profile with a very competitive salary. But it’s only for nine months!...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Aug 2020
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Boxing Clever
” Everyone has a plan until they are punched in the mouth.” Mike Tyson was not known for his wit and wisdom but his ferocity. His comment was therefore probably just a statement of the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Aug 2020
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Statistics don’t tell the whole story
  Statistics  may never lie, though everyone knows they can be economical with the truth. Everyone being managers and members. LA leaders and chief executives struggle to persuade the local...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Aug 2020
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Connecting community capabilities – how can an Open Place Directory help in the time of COVID-19?
There are examples across the whole of the UK, and some great tweets and posts about the ways in which councils have worked together with their partners and communities. The New Local...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  14 Aug 2020
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The best organisation are like enthusiastic gardeners 
 If HR are were to adopt a gardening metaphor it would be weeds  are just flowers in the wrong place.  This is not what a manager who has been asked to consider someone on...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  13 Aug 2020
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Connecting people to respond to COVID-19
With budget cuts and reduced funding, digital collaboration plays an important role and enables Knowledge Hub members to stay connected, reach a wider audience and support their work. The...
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Knowledge Hub Team
Last updated:  13 Aug 2020
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Don’t Oversimplify 
     
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Aug 2020
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Managing a budget is too often like dieting 
Following on from his successful book “The Food Myth” Tim Spector has written , “ Spoon-Feed: Almost Everything We’ve Been Told About Food Is Wrong”. On reading it I was struck by the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  08 Aug 2020
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Out of touch managers
  In the years immediately after England won the World Cup the then manager  Alf Ramsey could do no wrong in the eyes of his players but as the winning team was replaced by a new...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  24 Jul 2020
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