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 The awkward squad
Has your organisation a deviant sub culture that inhibits innovation and transformation, explains why changes take so long to deliver and never fully  realise the benefits anticipated?   ...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 Jul 2025
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HR investigates
The manager expresses concern about the individuals quality of work, too many mistakes, and their general attitude to work which shows a lack of commitment. The employee complains of the manager...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jun 2025
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A high wire act with HR as the balancing pole 
True some people make it look easy but is it really as difficult and demanding as they would have us believe? I have heard it compared to walking a tightrope, a balancing act between competing...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  30 Jun 2025
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Busy is not the same as productive
My hairdresser always used to ask,”Are you busy at work” as a conversation opener. I usually answered,”not particularly” as I assumed she meant,”hectic “ and my work wasn’t , rather it was...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 Jun 2025
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EDI explained 
Dancers wanted. We would like to appoint dancers who can tango and or salsa. However whilst with us we expect you to waltz. Blair Mcpherson former Director, author and blogger...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  26 Jun 2025
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 Saggy stained mattress 
it’s my guilty early evening pleasure.Ever week four different  Bed and Breakfast’s establishments compete to see which offers the best vale for money. The tv. slogan is With 4 in a bed...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jun 2025
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If you listen closely you can hear the quiet cracking 
The ice melts slowly, it may still look thick and strong but it’s slowly thawing, you may be half way across the frozen lake before the cracks start appearing and then it may be too late. It’s the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  25 Jun 2025
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Launching, deploying: are we going to into orbit? Why words matter
I often hear people say, “land the change” and it really got me thinking about the analogy. When a plane lands, the journey is far from over. The plane must navigate taxiways, complete...
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Ian McLoughlin (North West)
Last updated:  23 Jun 2025
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It’s normal to talk to your self 
Just about to deliver a speech in front of a large audience. Sitting waiting to be interviewed for that job you desperately desire. Making a budget proposal which if successful will secure the...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Jun 2025
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More innovation …
RPC has been innovating approaches in one multi-service field. Other nearby fields are also working hard to improve things for kids and families. Two Wishes collects and posts especially about how...
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Nick Child
Last updated:  21 Jun 2025
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Don’t be a passion killer 
I once stood up at a large meeting of managers to announce that the social service department was going for Investors In People (IIP) accreditation for the whole department. I said how impressed...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  18 Jun 2025
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From Single Mum on Benefits to Civil Servant: Seen It. Done It. Lived It.
From Single Mum on Benefits to Civil Servant: Seen It. Done It. Lived It. There was a time when I felt invisible. A single mum, living on benefits, trying to build a future with nothing but...
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Zoe Pickford
Last updated:  16 Jun 2025
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The Future Is Carbon: Why Carbon Credits Are Key to 2040 and Europe's Climate Leadership
At first glance, they may seem like just another financial instrument. But in reality—and this is my personal view—credits are becoming a true lever for transformation, combining sustainability,...
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Rubén Parra
Last updated:  15 Jun 2025
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The why in what we do...
I never connected with the stereotypical view of an academic locked away in their ivory tower, far removed from the topics they explore. It never spoke to the ‘why’ of what I do. I have always...
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Anton Roberts
Last updated:  13 Jun 2025
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Rehab Special Interest Day 2025
Please follow the link below to access the recording from our 2025 Special Interest Day!     Rehab SID 2025
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Rehabilitation Project Team
Last updated:  13 Jun 2025
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What’s it like to work here?
Anthropologists have found that societies and cultures have in common a tendency to tell researchers  stories they think they will find interesting and not the reality of their lives. There...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  12 Jun 2025
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How to get a head without losing your head.
In the turbulent and changing world of the Tudors soft skills were the key to prosperity, power, influence and self preservation. Thomas Sackville member of Parliament and Lord High Treasure...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Jun 2025
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Loyalty 
An employees takes a pay cut to save the company-is that loyalty or desperation?  A popular footballer leaves to join a rival cub is this disloyalty or a good career move ?   The boss...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  06 Jun 2025
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AI becomes dangerous 
“ When AI starts making us laugh, then we’re screwed” Salman Rushdie www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  05 Jun 2025
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Environmental public health surveillance system (EPHSS): an introduction
UKHSA’s Environmental Public Health Surveillance System (EPHSS) provides a comprehensive, surveillance capability that allows the public health community to interrogate data and intelligence...
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Obiageli Onyekpe
Last updated:  04 Jun 2025
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Environmental Public Health Surveillance System (EPHSS) report for 2021 to 2023
Executive summary Environmental factors are a leading cause of non-communicable diseases, they can impact the effect and transmission of infectious diseases and can have wide-reaching social and...
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Obiageli Onyekpe
Last updated:  04 Jun 2025
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Job Opportunity
East Riding of Yorkshire Council - Trading Standards Officer Food and Feed Please follow link for more details:- https://bit.ly/43HRBqY
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michael chapman
Last updated:  02 Jun 2025
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Can you ask your ESA parrot not to repeat  that. 
So how seriously does your organisation take the well being of employees? Would it be ok to bring a pet that alleviates their anxiety into the office especially into a situation they considered...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  29 May 2025
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 “If you’re worried about The Terminator, just keep the door closed.”
Stephen Hawkins warned that the full realisation of Artificial Intelligence could spell the end of the human race. But, after attending a robotics challenge in which most robots couldn’t open...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital
Timescale The 15 Bed Ward project was undertaken at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. The project spanned a total of 28 weeks and was carried out in 2024 and 2025. The installation phase of the...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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OPD Waterford Hospital
Timescale P McVey Building Systems was appointed as the design and build supplier for a new Outpatients Department at University Hospital Waterford. The bespoke 960m² modular building was designed...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Beaumont Hospital
Timescale The modular hybrid theatre project for Beaumont Hospital was completed in June 2024. Constructed offsite, the entire installation was executed within a single day to minimise disruptions...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Altnagelvin Hospital
Timescale The bespoke 400m² modular extension was designed in-house, manufactured, and installed within 8 weeks of the order. To minimise disruption, the team worked late on-site, completing the...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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St. Mogue's College
Timescale This project provided state-of-the-art facilities to meet the school's growing needs, all within a tight 16-week timeline. Despite working in a live school environment, the project was...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Scoil Na Seolta
Timescale Scoil Na Seolta was completed within a four-month timeframe, with the 11- section modular school installed in a single day, demonstrating the efficiency of modular construction. This...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Belfast Transport Hub
Timescale Timing was crucial, as the project’s completion aligned with their return-to office scheme. A strict program ensured deadlines were met and within budget, allowing internal work to...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  27 May 2025
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Sport Ireland
Timescale Conneely Builders confirmed that timing was a vital element at the beginning of the project. Design took place Winter 2022 with off site fabrication commencing January. Phase...
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Eamon Corey
Last updated:  26 May 2025
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The day AI hacks itself 
They drive him up the wall ,” Stupid f**king humans “ is his constant inner refrain. It is a security cyborg designed to protect humans. Narrating its own story Murderbot , as it refers to itself ,...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  19 May 2025
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The not so good old days 
It used to be that managers talked and employees listened. It used to be that managers had the answers and employees simply enacted ready made solutions. It used to be that the managers voice was...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 May 2025
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Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences
A Colleague shared this group with me, including some of the events they are running. There looks to be some good stuff which might be relevant to vairous communities on here; ...
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Will Serle
Last updated:  07 May 2025
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When success is not measured in profitability.
They have the best stadium in the country and they are the sixteenth richest in the world, all down to the business acumen and sound financial management of one man. They should be considered a...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  07 May 2025
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Bigging yourself up is not lying 
You definitely shouldn’t lie in a job interview but you want to show yourself in the best possible light. You shouldn’t claim credit for the work of others, exaggerate your contribution to a...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 May 2025
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How do you make your CV /job application standout to an AI recruiter?
These days many organisations use an AI recruitment system to under take their short listing of applicants. But whether it’s a machine or a human , applicants who approach the task systematically...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  02 May 2025
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Three's Company: The Benefits of Starting an Online Group with Multiple Facilitators
Building an online group / community is no easy task. It requires a lot of effort, patience, and dedication. However, one of the most important decisions that you need to make when starting an...
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Michael Norton
Last updated:  30 Apr 2025
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Ministry of Latecomers 
As a form of protest I can’t see it working but then again I’m not French. The idea is that as a protest against the raising of the retirement age in France workers should get back the time taken...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  01 May 2025
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There’s a hole in my bucket
If your old enough or young enough you will recall that humorous children’s song “There’s a hole in my bucket “ in which one person comes up with excuses for not completing a simple task starting...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  28 Apr 2025
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The listening organisation
Do you remember that TV. advert that referred to the listening bank  “ Come and talk to the listening bank “. Well some organisation refer to their employee engagement strategy in the same...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  16 Apr 2025
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What Champions League goal tells us about management 
He shoots, he scores. Only he wasn’t supposed to. The instructions from the bench were to cross the ball. It was a wonderful piece of skill. However he had never before scored from a free kick so...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  15 Apr 2025
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Strongman v Strong  man ( or woman)  there’s a difference 
There are many how speak with admiration about strong, decisive leadership. But what is a strong leader? Strong leadership is often a euphemism for authoritarian leadership where dissent is not...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Apr 2025
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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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Glory Days 
The Bruce Springsteen song ,” Glory Days “ tells of two encounters with former school friends many years latter. The first is a cheerleader now working as a waitress who was the girl every boy...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  17 Mar 2025
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Simpatico
Simpatico it’s an Italian word to describe someone who you feel you have an instant rapport with because you are like minded. Simpatico in the workplace is the feeling that some one is easy to do...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  14 Mar 2025
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When happiness is not enough
I was happy but sometimes happiness is not enough. I liked the job, the people I worked with and I got on with the boss. I was secure and comfortable in the role. The money was good my partner and...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  11 Mar 2025
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The Game Changers 
The coach of the under 8’s team announced which players were in the starting line up.  One of those not selected asked ,” Are we the substitutes ,” The coach replied ,”no you are the game...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  10 Mar 2025
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SysTime this Wednesday
A quick reminder about the session on Wednesday, led by Dr Alex Penn.  This will provide an overview of the participatory systems mapping PSM  method developed by CECAN and give an...
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Mary McKee
Last updated:  10 Mar 2025
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The future of leadership
Someone once tried to convince me that the future was leaderless organisations. That the most successful organisations in the future will not be led by an individual but a small group of senior...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  04 Mar 2025
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Ending “silly” decisions 
“The biggest challenge that I face at work is not managing my team. It is dealing with my boss and senior management.”   My team is regularly informed of senior management decisions and they...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  23 Feb 2025
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Leaders are not like us
Leaders are not like the rest of us they are more ambitious, more ruthless and thicker skinned. They flatter and charm, they are demanding and very good at getting people to do what they want...
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Blair McPherson
Last updated:  22 Feb 2025
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