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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
08 Medi 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
02 Medi 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Medi 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
25 Awst 2020
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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!...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
20 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
18 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Awst 2020
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Connecting community capabilities – how can an Open Place Directory help in the time of COVID-19?
There are examples across the whole of the UK, and some great tweets and posts about the ways in which councils have worked together with their partners and communities. The New Local...
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
13 Awst 2020
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Connecting people to respond to COVID-19
With budget cuts and reduced funding, digital collaboration plays an important role and enables Knowledge Hub members to stay connected, reach a wider audience and support their work. The...
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13 Awst 2020
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Don’t Oversimplify
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
15 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
08 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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24 Gorff 2020
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A personal journey from council officer to supplier, via the MHCLG Local Digital team
In late June and early July 2018, I was racing between London, Cardiff and Birmingham, helping Linda O’Halloran, Egle Uzkaraityte, Adam Thoulass and our colleagues in the embryonic MHCLG Local...
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24 Gorff 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
22 Gorff 2020
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Do you read the instructions?
You might be someone who jumps right in and gets stuck in there and learns by winging it. Or you might be a little more cautious and assess all the bits and pieces first and then get going,...
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
15 Gorff 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Gorff 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
13 Awst 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
05 Gorff 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
01 Gorff 2020
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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,...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
30 Meh 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
27 Meh 2020
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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...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
26 Meh 2020
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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,...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
14 Meh 2020
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Big and Scary
It’s big and it’s scary, it’s in the room and ignoring it won’t make it go away. An Elephant in the Room is an expression to describe a big topic everyone is ignoring, pretending it...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
13 Meh 2020
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More than just a soft machine
I WAS AT ONE TIME THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESOURCES IN A LARGE COMPLEX ORGANISATION. FINANCE, IT, PERSONNEL AND TRAINING FELL WITHIN MY REMIT. THIS LINE MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENT REFLECTED THE...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
10 Meh 2020
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It doesn’t help that people really don’t like HR.
Human Resource staff make people behave and they don’t like it. They are the ones that tell you that even if you think the jokes are funny, you still can’t tell sexist, racist or homophobic...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Meh 2020
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Sometimes it takes a crisis
When this pandemic is over you will know a lot more about your staff/ managers . A crisis brings out the strength in some and the weaknesses in others. It will not necessarily have been the...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
09 Meh 2020
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The Art of Winging It
Before you know what you are doing you’re expected to know what you are doing, so you have no choice but to wing it. It happened to me. As part of a cost cutting senior management restructuring...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
05 Meh 2020
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Management anyone can do it-not
The interesting thing about management is that pretty much everyone thinks they could do it and do it better. It’s not rocket science. That is why so many people think they understand it. But...
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Blair McPherson
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Diweddarwyd ddiwethaf:
22 Mai 2020
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