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The one without the battenberg tattoo. The one with the golden skirts →. November 28, 2013 · 6:18 pm. The one with the quality job. I’m not sure who first said “better, faster, cheaper – pick any two” but it does seem to be enduringly true. I was recently invited to be part of a judging panel on the “In-House Recruitment Awards” (thanks Mark and Simon) and was assigned a few categories to do the initial judging prior to a. What made me slightly nervous in reading the award entries that success (and the s...
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December | 2013 | Masters or Bust
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Monthly Archives: December 2013. December 31, 2013 · 9:26 am. The one with the cracked crystal ball. With many people, including the Queen, advocating looking back at 2013, I am yet again. Jumping on the bandwagon of looking forward and having a tongue in cheek crack at a few predictions for 2014. Caveat emptor! 1 Confidence will continue to increase. 2 The Chinese will be to blame. 3 We will be told our lot is better. 4 Vince Cable will further distance himself. 5 The job market will flip. Whether Belie...
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The one without the battenberg tattoo | Masters or Bust
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The one with the code red. The one with the quality job →. November 6, 2013 · 7:15 am. The one without the battenberg tattoo. That said sometimes giving people what they don’t know they yet need (think Henry Ford quote about faster horses) is worth the time, effort, disruption, risk and leadership required to steer the tanker and maybe just maybe the resistance is nothing to do with the expected outcome and more about the fear of change that a person inevitably feels. If it ain't broke don't fix it.
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The one in defence of appraisal | Masters or Bust
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The one with the peer’s pressure. January 31, 2014 · 6:59 am. The one in defence of appraisal. Over the past few weeks I’ve read a few things (and sorry I can’t find all the links) slating the idea of performance review or appraisal – whatever you want to call it. I do remember a piece from the Harvard Business Review blogs where the Chief Human Resources Officer of Lear (you know, them what make the posh planes) rails against linking performance review to pay. Even high performers suffer, because when t...
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June | 2013 | Masters or Bust
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Monthly Archives: June 2013. June 26, 2013 · 7:15 am. The one with the secret society. I must confess I wouldn’t want to be part of ‘the business’ because they are to blame for EVERYTHING. Anything and everything that people can’t or don’t want to do seems to be the fault of ‘the business’ so I can only think what a strange and dissociated bunch they must be…. Everyone in the organisation is part of ‘the business’? This can’t be true! Oh, it isn’t a secret society that no one can join? It may be that you...
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May | 2013 | Masters or Bust
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Monthly Archives: May 2013. May 31, 2013 · 7:45 am. The one with coffee and paranoia. Last Friday I spent my afternoon at an internal event focussed on Innovation. A combination of speakers and workshops seemed to energise a diverse room on a Friday afternoon and given the event was internal we were lucky to be joined by Professor Mark Dodgson. A leading academic on the subject who is a visiting professor at Imperial College London but more of him in a moment…. The Grand Cafe, Oxford, opened in the 1650s.
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March | 2013 | Masters or Bust
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Monthly Archives: March 2013. March 26, 2013 · 7:05 am. The one with nothing to do. In the context of the conversation it was very pertinent and will definitely form some part of the support we give people in preparing for these situations but I have thought about it several times since in the context of management and leadership more generally. He also serves who only stands and waits. March 25, 2013 · 7:05 am. The one with the global athletes. Last week I had the pleasure of meeting Alexandra Levit.
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July | 2013 | Masters or Bust
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Monthly Archives: July 2013. July 31, 2013 · 7:30 am. The one with the police action. Recently I had a brush with the police. Not the ello, ello, ello police but the corporate equivalent the auditors. The subject of the audit was the competence of the individuals within the organisation. The other recommendation that was supported was that assessment of competence would align with the performance management cycle. Performance review, objective setting, competence review and personal development plann...
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