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Blair McPherson
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25 juin 2022 - 11:56

null Despite the evidence 

“ Throwing money at the problem won’t solve it.” Margaret Thatcher.  NASA disproved that theory in putting a man on the moon. “ Spend alone doesn’t explain differences in performance between LA’s.” Audit Commission. No but poverty, low income , and health inequalities does present a bigger challenge for some LA’s.  It’s not about the money is a dangerous slogan. Of course you can ... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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24 juin 2022 - 11:05

null Just a job, away of putting food on the table and paying the rent/bills 

The pandemic has caused significant numbers of employees to question whether they want to change jobs and do something different. The return to work has reveal previously unrecognised or ignored levels of disengagement. The management have tended to assume that whilst a minority of employees may feel it’s just a job and do as little as they can get away with the majority care about... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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18 juin 2022 - 10:16

null Drugs and Driving 

He doesn’t remember anything about the accident. If it was an accident. The boy who was due to go to Oxford but who now struggled to writ his name. His best friend said he was up set. His girl friend said it was a silly argument. But neither of them would say anymore. When he crashed through the road works he was doing over a hundred. Everyone said he was lucky to be alive although he... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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13 juin 2022 - 10:27

null Do we need a Superhero? 

Why this obsession with superheroes are ordinary heroes no longer up to the job?  Well what chance us mere managers.  How many superheroes can you list? It used to be that there was Superman and Spider Man plus possibly Batman, although technically he didn’t have any super powers. Now due to the popularity of the Avengers and X -men films it’s not just the comic book nerds who can ... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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11 juin 2022 - 20:20

null Making your mind up 

If you want to change someone’s mind ask the right questions, listen carefully to the answers and share your own story. But be warned the person describing how to do this considers it to be so effective that he has serious doubts about about telling you.  How minds change David McRaney   
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Blair McPherson
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09 juin 2022 - 11:02

null  When managers lose it big time. 

May be you were just the unlucky person who picked up the phone but the manager on the other end is angry, very angry with HR. Perhaps something has gone wrong in the recruitment process, maybe there has been a cock up over the redundancy notices, or a disgruntled employee has been advised to submit a formal grievance against this manager. Could it be that the disciplinary hearing did... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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31 mai 2022 - 14:12

null Exceptionalism

The idea that this new thing won’t work here because our circumstances, population profile, unique history, political make up, levels of deprivation, industrial past, prevailing culture, are so different. Coupled with a misplaced view that we’re not only different but a bit better than the others so we don’t need to do what they do. Resistance to change from the top is often simply a... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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28 mai 2022 - 10:57

null Leadership like a submarine 

Rarely seen, silent on most issues, assumed to be getting on with it, ignoring what’s going on around them, isolated from the rest of the world/organisation. But requiring us to trust them. Not really leadership.  Blair Mcpherson former director, author and blogger www.blairmcpherson.co.uk 
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Blair McPherson
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27 mai 2022 - 14:50

null So how do your managers treat the cleaners when no one is looking?

A lack of respect and poor treatment. Totally Ignored as if invisible. Subjected to derogatory sexual comments. Sworn at. Treated with contempt. Expected to clean up vomit and spilt wine stains. According to Sue Gray.    All I know is that I have worked in a number of organisations and I have often still been in the office when most people have gone home and the cleaning staff are... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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26 mai 2022 - 14:27

null In charge but not in control 

Who is in charge is a question that comes up a lot at work in all types of organisations. At one stage in my management career I was responsible for 83 Nursing and Residential  care Homes. Before we changed their job titles each Home had an Officer in Charge. This type of institutional care regularly throws up scandals involving abuse and neglect and routinely involves allegations of... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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25 mai 2022 - 20:49

null The best career advice I have been given

It’s interesting to hear what those at the top of organisations say about the best career advice they were given. Although on reading some of that advice I think if the individual followed it then they must have been a challenge to manage. Howard Davies chairman of the NatWest Group is quoted as saying the best career advice he’s been given,” Always show you could do your boss’s job... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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19 mai 2022 - 15:59

null Why we use metaphors and when we shouldn’t. 

Metaphors are used to capture attention and explain complex things by comparing them to something familiar to the audience.  The business metaphors chosen often have nothing new to say and are just a different way of saying it.  These metaphors tends to look for parallels when we would learn more by focusing on the troubling differences. Military metaphors are common but business is... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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17 mai 2022 - 16:20

null Swimming in rough seas

  It’s about working in a difficult environment, finding strong forces working against you and having to use up a lot of energy to make slow progress.  This can happen in any organisation at any level from the employee with a really good idea and an unreceptive manager to the Chief Executive dealing with an influential group within the board. It could be an HR team trying to push the... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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09 mai 2022 - 06:48

null Can robots have a sense of humour? And would we find it funny?

In Catch 22 wounded officers in hospital are given enlisted men’s letters to redact of any sensitive military detail. Some of the letters are to girl friends back home and are very sexually graphic but most are from sons to mothers and are very dull. The officers quickly become board with the task and devise ways of making it more interesting. Like redacting every forth word, or every... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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09 mai 2022 - 02:47

null Gogglebox

People watching other people watch television! Celebrity Gogglebox. People watching celebrities watching television. I read the,”inspiration “ for Gogglebox came from the innovative comedy,The Royal Family, which is set in someone’s sitting room from where we watch a family sitting watching the television! The difference is that The Royal Family is a carefully scripted social... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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06 mai 2022 - 15:59

null The state of things and status of Queuing 

Queuing is never far from the headlines these days but usually it’s about the waiting lists for NHS operations, the length of waiting times in A&E or the queuing of ambulances outside hospitals. This news item was about the practice of queuing for someone else. I first heard of it in India where the simple act of buying a railway ticket could involve queueing for hours or even... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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07 juin 2022 - 07:04

null It’s Shangri-la and you are the legend at its centre 

“ Where everyone of us has the chance to make a mark and shape the future. Where senior managers are a catalyst for this change. Energising the people who can make it happen. At the centre of everything you will inspire passion. You instil courage. You bring the heart of a leader. “ It’s an advert for the organisation’s top post. It’s an advert that tells you what... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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09 mai 2022 - 02:51

null Snooze and you lose

Those who need five hours or less sleep a night are more successful than those who need eight hours or more. Less sleep gives you more time to do things and  being more productive makes you more successful.  Research around what makes a successful  business person or political leader has identified a correlation with the amount of sleep they claim to need. From interviews and... Voir plus
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Blair McPherson
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17 mai 2022 - 14:36

null Prove you are not a robot 

It says much about modern society that a computer requires me to prove I am not a computer to progress with an interaction! If computers need help to distinguish between humans and computers does a computer realise it is a computer? I compute therefore I am. 
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Blair McPherson
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02 janv. 2023 - 02:24

null Spread it thinly 

It was a debate between the merits of butter v margarine in terms of a healthy diet. The dairy farmer argued butter was a totally natural product so had to be better for you. His counterpart argued that research had shown that alternatives to butter such as those made with olive oil reduced the risk of heart  disease. The interviewer then turned to the medical spokes person from the... Voir plus
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