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So you think you might want to be a manager
An industry magazine approached me to contribute to their “week in the life of a manager” series. I described a typical week, there was wadding through application forms, agreeing a short list and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 Apr 2025
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What would be your work superpower?
May be rather than make your body stretch like an elastic band you would like to make budgets stretch. What you’re always running out of is time so it would be useful if you had the power to find...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  03 Apr 2025
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Is your organisation effective or merely efficient?
I started my career in the public sector just as the efficiency v effectiveness debate was warming up. Up until then it was the overriding belief that public services were not like the private...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Mar 2025
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 How to get people to do what you want 
A promising young footballer is snapped up by a top team. He thrives on the quality of plays around him and ends the season top goal scorer beating the clubs long standing record and is called up...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Mar 2025
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Out of touch 
The formula one racing driver Lewis Hamilton recently dismissed his critics as ,”old white men”. From the context of conversation I understand him to be saying that those who objected most...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  20 Mar 2025
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“ Hold the chicken” 
There is a famous scene in the film Five Easy Pieces where Jack Nicholas is seen ordering his breakfast in a roadside dinner. He asks the waitress for toast, she says we don’t do toast. He says you...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Mar 2025
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How many ways are there to leave an organisation?
Paul Simon sang about 50 ways to leave your lover but there are not so many ways to leave an organisation. You can retire and retire early, you can be made redundant or accept voluntary redundancy,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Mar 2025
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SCOPHRA
Please check out our web page and introdcutory video on youtube. More to follow. https://www.youtube.com/@SCOPHRA Current SCOPHRA actions are focused in a progressive and collaborative approach...
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Gordon Morrison
Last updated:  17 Mar 2025
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