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Blair McPherson
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08 sept. 2020 - 06:03

null 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 cost of which could not be justified but was intended to demonstrate capitalism was better than communism  and the USA was the greatest.  Putting a man on the moon was an extortionately... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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02 sept. 2020 - 07:00

null 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 with you to the presentation. They imply that maybe you have misunderstood the politics surrounding the situation and therefore have written the email with a more aggressive tone than... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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14 sept. 2020 - 14:06

null 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 farm just to be close to her. Him and his dad, the only Catholics on the estates, get burned out when their house is firer bombed. Homeless and hiding from his “ friend” the shooter, who he... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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25 août 2020 - 09:01

null 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 formal monthly supervision, the norm in some specialisms is now being rolled out across whole organisations as part of the performance management revolution.   After all Ginger Rogers did... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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20 août 2020 - 13:17

null 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! It doesn’t matter how successful you are in this period at the end of it you will be gone. Your replacement has already been named by the incoming chair. This is not the best time to be joining... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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18 août 2020 - 09:33

null 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 obvious that when it came to the fight whatever cleaver tactics his opponent had in mind they were still going to get hit very hard. Yet the comment is memorable because in life so many carefully... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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14 août 2020 - 14:41

null 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 media and a sceptical public that the authority should not be judged solely on it league position.   Using a football analogy helps explain how things may not be as simple as the league table would... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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13 août 2020 - 11:32

null 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 redeployment wants to hear. Nor is it the response a manager with an incompetent or “difficult” team member is hoping for. The implication in both cases is that the manager just needs to... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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15 août 2020 - 13:02

null Don’t Oversimplify 

     
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Blair McPherson
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08 août 2020 - 13:36

null 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 similarities between dieting and budgeting. Between loosing lbs and losing £s. Between cutting down and cutting. Between crash diets and dramatic budget cuts. Between the the special diets promoted by... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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24 juil. 2020 - 12:23

null 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 generation the manager’s word was no longer law. At the start of an England training session Alf brought the new younger members of the squad together and suggested they get a hair cut. They just... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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22 juil. 2020 - 10:35

null A faint air of menace 2

We need to talk about how we talk about Black Lives Matter (BLM) in the work place because the subject still has a faint air of menace about it. If people are reluctant to talk about diversity for fear of saying the wrong thing then organisations will have a tick box approach to diversity which looks impressive but doesn't  change the culture. This all to common superficial approach... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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09 juil. 2020 - 11:32

null Alien Encounter 

If aliens from a distant and previously unknown planet landed seeking asylum and only to be allowed to integrate into society, HR would have no problem adapting equality and diversity policies to include Little Green Men. After all colour, race and sexuality are already covered.  From HR to all staff In view of recent “new arrivals” there maybe a need for some minor tweaks to... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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13 août 2020 - 05:56

null Heated arguments in the Team Meeting

To anyone observing it was a very heated argument. One member of the team was criticising another and not holding back. The other responded with a few well chosen remarks of their own. Voices were raised. It looked and sounded ugly. The boss did not intervene. So is this what is meant  by a dysfunctional management team? Not according to the boss.  According to the boss this type of... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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05 juil. 2020 - 19:06

null The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August

Time travel doesn’t require a time machine. You can’t go forwards into the future only backwards into the past. Time travel is not open to everyone but every generation has individuals who do. You can’t visit any period in history the way they do in the books and films. Each time traveller can only revisit their past. The way it works is you die then you are reborn on the same... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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01 juil. 2020 - 12:57

null Champions League 

Black Lives Matter is making us rethink our approach to Equality. Most organisations have management steering groups to monitor their equality strategies and action plans. But the agendas lack passion, fail to inspire and reflect the slow bureaucratic approach to change. Moreover, the groups tend to comprise of managers nominated as representatives of their departments rather than due... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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30 juin 2020 - 20:08

null Hot Hand

An expression in basketball to describe a player on a hot scoring streak who feels and appears unable to miss. But for every up side there is a downside,  the top striker who just can’t score, the international  goal keeper who suddenly can’t be relied on to catch a cross. The pundits tell us it’s down to confidence and affects people at whatever level they play. What’s not clear is... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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27 juin 2020 - 11:07

null Don’t look to football managers for best practice 

Is managing a football club so different to being a senior manager in a Local Authority?Both are challenged to motivate talented individuals. Both have a vision and a plan for the future whilst being required to deliver improved performance in the short term. In both cases recruitment  and retention will reflect and determine progress. The amount of money available and the priorities... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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26 juin 2020 - 14:02

null I look to football managers for lessons in management 

Football managers like Jurgen Klopp and Jose Mourinho and from a previous generation Alex  Ferguson and Brian Clough are stand out managers with impressive track records. They are extreme characters, neither heroes nor villains although to the partisan they are both. Their high profile and willingness speak their mind, their tendency to court controversy,  the level of scrutiny their... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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14 juin 2020 - 15:26

null Playing up and Playing down 

Sometimes you have to play up and sometimes play down your abilities. The scene is a golf club, the context a new manager trying to break into a close knit group of colleagues , the method, pretending he is a novice golfer and letting the leader of the clique  give him tips on how to improve his game, with remarkable successful results!  Getting on and getting things done both... Voir plus
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