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Going against the grain, or sailing against the tide?

Every culture, however broadly or narrowly you define it, tends to have its ideals, including the type of people that it holds up for admiration. We may think of etiquette as being the preserve of...

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Shania Twain, the World Management Survey and Shareholder Value Decisions:...

Do the following words describe someone you might know? I’ve known a few guys who thought they were pretty smart But you’ve got being right down to an art You think you’re a genius-you drive me up the...

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Young Apprentice, Episode 3: The Show Must Go On

The opening scenes should have been a warning. Andrew enthusiastically discharges hairspray into his eyes, presumably to keep his boggle-eyed enthusiasm firmly in place. The novelty socks we glimpsed...

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Film Review: Moneyball (Or: “How can you not be romantic about baseball?””

Yes, a film about baseball. Actually, a film about baseball and statistics. For those of you about to click away, it has Brad Pitt in it. (Statistically, there’s a fair chance approx. 95% of women and...

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Young Apprentice, Episode 5: The Big Mess

Sometimes you can get a subliminal sense that someone’s heart isn’t really in it. Faced with briefing the candidates on creating a kids club ‘fun but entertaining’ license-able venture, Lord Sugar...

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Transparent Briefs

Ok, the title is deliberately attention-grabbing. So what’s the point here? What I’m really thinking about is delegation and learning. But allow me to drag your attention back south for an example: I...

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I have a dream….

A week ago, there was an auspicious alignment of two of the most influential black Americans: Barack Obama was inaugurated for a second time (if electing a black President was historic, how should we...

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Defining Courage

In a recent Forbes blog, 10 Traits of Courageous Leaders, Susan Tardanico suggests ten actions leaders can take that will – she argues – have positive benefits for them and for those they lead....

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Two Rights Don’t Make A Wrong

I’ve often appreciated Dan Rockwell and his Leadership Freak blog – and not just for that double-take blog title. His most agreeable characteristic (to my mind at least) is that he remains prepared to...

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Employeeship

“The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.” - Gunter Grass As a non-academic, there are times when I encounter the outpourings of the higher education community and catch myself thinking “Yes, I...

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Lies, damned lies and statistics …

…oh, and research reports. And HR. Would you Adam and Eve it? Gor blimey, guv, strike a light … People Management have commissioned a survey into lying at work. Shockingly, this really actually...

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Apprentice 2013 Episode 3: A Box Of Frogs

The most startling moment of this episode – officially called, with blinding insight, Flat-Pack – happened a few minutes in, and I’ve been trying to have my retinas repaired ever since. Earlier in the...

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Apprentice 2013, Episode 7: Hitting the Road

It’s Neil’s turn to get his tats out on this week’s episode of The Apprentice as the phone call comes in at 6am. They’re off to the Tower of London – sadly as tourists rather than prisoners – and have...

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Process: Safety blanket or wet blanket?

There are a fair few tropes that remain perpetual battlegrounds in the world of L&D, HR and OD: profits vs people as an over-riding focus and talent’s opposing ‘nature’ vs. ‘nurture’ battalions...

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Mental and Physical Rooms: removing obstacles for your creatives

Every discipline has its fetishes – inanimate objects attributed with magical properties. (Analysts have spreadsheets, consultants have models, but creatives? If there’s a consensus – and we are...

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When you become the story …

… it is, as journalists never tire of telling us, time to go. Farewell then, Lucy Adams, who will leave the BBC as (according to her LinkedIn profile) Director of People and Director of Business...

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Challenging or Competing? Taking issue with Gavin Kilduff

The world, or at least the publishers of business related material, appears to have an untiring appetite for material that seeks to illuminate business and workplace behaviour by shining a light on a...

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Line Managers are organisational pillars, but pillars need support too

ASK has long held that line managers are critical to enhancing organisational effectiveness, workplace productivity and the transfer and application of learning: their active involvement in, engagement...

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Populating the tent

Forgive us for hanging a broader point off a recent political headline (especially as we’ve apologised for this already this month), but the reshuffles of both the government ministers and their Shadow...

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Glass Ceiling? If only it were so simple

As a species, it seems we often like to simplify challenges – not just as this is the era of the soundbite when complex issues must be reduced to ‘elevator pitches’ to get others to engage, but perhaps...

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