Does anyone really still believe the captain should go down with the ship? Must someone always be to blame and should that be the person in charge?
As a senior manager I always signed up to the view that when something goes wrong we should resist the temptation to find out who was to blame. It’s not just that a blame culture makes people afraid to make decisions, inhibits...
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16 Dec 2022 - 15:30
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11 Mar 2016 - 11:51
Stress like the public sector is not fashionable but that doesn't mean it's no longer present. Whether you regard it as bad for business that over stressed managers make bad decisions or you take your duty of welfare to your employees seriously, stress is an issue for organisations. You would anticipate that job insecurity, over ambitious efficiency targets and the difficulty of...
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12 Oct 2015 - 05:57
I don't think we will have too much difficulty delivering this round of budget cuts.
I have the board in my pocket.
The inspection is a formality.
Can I just say thank you in advance to all those of you who are about to fill in my 360 degree feedback questionnaire
I think you will be very pleased with the new terms and conditions we are imposing it will certainly help many of you...
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15 Oct 2015 - 07:10
The CQC has come in for more criticism recently a chief executive thinks they were unduly harsh in placing his trust in special measures having judged two areas of service failing yet recognised excellent work in many other areas of the trust. A journalist writes an article on nursing homes inspected and deemed to be performing well only for staff to be prosecuted for abuse! Doctors...
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14 Jan 2015 - 12:26
If you listen to senior managers particularly in organisations where things have gone badly wrong it's not difficult to see why they might be unreliable witnesses.
I want to put the record straight. The politicians and the journalists have past judgment, my former colleagues have distanced themselves and even those I trusted most have spoken out against me.
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