Self help?

I bought a book over the weekend. It was all of 10p – ex stock from my local library. Except strangely it had never been loaned, it was in perfect …

Instinct

They looked at me, then again at the flip chart and then back to me. They were confused. I understood their dilemma, here they were on a leadership and management course …

Collusion

I made the call as requested. Spoke to the HR manager with a brief outline of available dates. I was surprised that it was such a rush job, that wasn’t …

Lest we forget

  We are lucky, there is no conscription now, no draft to force us to the frontline. Everyone who chooses to go is a volunteer. The reasons they sign up …

Get busy or get out of the way

I remember when it was called Personnel Services. I kind of liked that description. The idea that the department concerned was meant to provide service and support to the workforce. …

Imaginaut

I’ve read that innovation is slowing, that we’ve invented most of the big things. From here on in the inventions will merely be refinements of existing knowledge or technologies. I …

Seven spaces

Almost 2,500 years ago Confucius wrote a text known as The Great Learning. In it he talks about what it takes to be a leader. The central theme is that …

Rocket science is easy

Today’s post is in answer to my recent challenge to readers to provide me with subjects. Emma @onatrainagain (do check her out on twitter) asked me “What helps you, either …