Some leaders think it is a perfectly normal state of affairs in these
challenging times for managers to be cynical and staff disillusioned.
Some leaders claim staff always moan about their managers and distrust
senior management and that this does not mean that the organisation
will underperform, disappoint clients or has problems that at some
point will surface dramatically. They are...
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null Changing your mind
The willingness to change your mind is a good quality in a leader as
long as they don’t do it too often. Change it too often and you’re a
nightmare to work for, never change it and you’re a disaster waiting
to happen.
I would complain to my elder statesman colleague on the senior
management team about the boss’s failure to stick to his guns when
mangers express doubts about a...
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null This is not America
This is not America. I am not an American. I am not anti
Americans just their business/management culture. The business
schools, the MBA courses, the case studies and the language, the
influence of the US is overwhelming. The attitude and the behaviour,
the way they do things, are held up as models to study and emulate.
They are the biggest and best, so they tell us. Recently , to...
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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 than the
agenda. With the result they miss meetings that they really should
have attended. The questions they should be asking are can I make a
meaningful contribution? Do I need to attend every...
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16 févr. 2021 - 10:34
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 your organisation’s Equality and Diversity strategy
recognise the lack of black employees in senior posts and is one of
the aims of the strategy to address this situation? Do you believe in
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null 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 Netflix costume
drama reimagines Regency England as a place where black people existed
as equals with whites. And that’s a game change.
Netflix has a Vice President of inclusion responsible the
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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 justifies the means,
the attitude that it’s about beating the system so anything is ok if
you can get away with it, the treatment of employees ( zero contracts,
not recognising TU’s, aggressive...
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08 janv. 2021 - 11:21
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 from HR.
They have the accumulated experience of many manager over many years.
There is nothing they have not come across before - well almost
nothing. But be assured they have come across more...
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26 déc. 2020 - 11:41
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 colleagues
recounted stories which gave insights into his management style. He
could be single minded and inflexible, he could be direct to the point
of being abrasive, he was decisive and clear...
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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 worst kind of bad practice is rarely picked up by
inspections, sometimes there are rumours, sometimes managers have
concerns but without specifics nothing happens until you get a whistle
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null 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
misunderstandings that can occur when we think we speak the same
language or is there more to it?
Philadelphia Mayor tells Trump to “Put big boy pants on”. So read
a headline in the days after...
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07 déc. 2020 - 17:24
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 there is a secret plan
is actually comforting, it‘s more reassuring to think our leaders are
intelligent and competent , even if devious, than to accept we inhabit
a world of randomness and...
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null 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 have a future or
will it be allowed to decay through lack of funds and indifference, no
longer considered relevant. The longer it’s neglected the more costly
it is to restore it. But it’s amazing...
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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 for doing something he could do himself my dad went
about moving earth , lots of it, to level it up. He took earth from
the bottom of the garden and moved to the top. He started in one
corner and...
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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. Apparently I should have
made it clear that I was writing in a personal capacity and not as a
spokes person for the local authority. The boss was at pains to state
that the leader did not necessarily...
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13 nov. 2020 - 15:04
"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 encouraging the believe that everyone
wanted them to lose. When Arsenal’s historic unbeaten run was ended by
Manchester United, at old Trafford, Cesc Fabregas notoriously through
a slice of pizza at...
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Every senior manager has a leadership fantasy but they’re to
embarrassed to tell you. They do however give clues.
Maybe they secretly see themselves as
Dirty Harry...
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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 year old is
getting smarter. Children are still learning to walk and talk within
the same time scales as previous generations but significant changes
have been noted in the extent of their...
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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 headline words of the value statement of
a small deprived midland local authority I once worked for. Helpfully
the website explains what each word stands for.
Trust – Shows respect, makes a...
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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 managers and the
politicians. Should the professionals run the service because they
know best or should managers because resources are scarce and budgets
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