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Where should our cash go – retaining people or training people?
How is it that organisations are content to go on spending £100ks or $100ks or more per month on salaries of people doing their jobs badly, but not a few £k or $k teaching them how to do their jobs...
What is the source of Aung San Suu Kyi’s peaceful power?
How is it that the Burmese generals with access to so much military might fear Aung San Suu Kyi - a slight 65-year woman? OK, so their fear has diminished enough for her to be released, for the...
There ain’t no magic bullets
Great discussion with the team from Unipart led by John Neill, Group Chief Executive of the Unipart Group of Companies at the Business in the Parliament conference in Edinburgh (12 November 2010)....
Looking for some guiding principles? Try Jimmy Reid’s – ‘Clyde-built’ to travel the world.
In the West of Scotland yesterday was celebrated a life well-lived and an example to us all – Jimmy Reid (1932 – 2010). To think of the former Clyde shipbuilder as speaking only to a left-wing...
What do you do with someone who talks about themselves all the time?
Do you have this problem? You find that certain people just talk about themselves all the time. You’re happy to listen and attend to them a lot, even much more than half the time when you're...
Post-election developments highlight importance of getting on with people
Whatever the final outcome of all the negotiations, some skill in relating well to other people and some care to do this over time has put David Cameron and Nick Clegg in the position where they...
Are private comments ever really private – radio mics or not?
Events of the last week where Gordon Brown's comments intended to be private were heard in public (to understate things more than a little) would seem to highlight the dangers of using radio...
Research suggests health outcomes could be improved by working on relationship skills
Professor Phil Hanlon, expert in public health at Glasgow University, quoted in an article by Helen Puttick in The Herald newspaper (22 March 2010), says that the 'best shot' at an explanation for...
Danny Bole – A model of empowering other people
Fascinated to catch this week's castaway, writer Frank Cottrell Boyce on BBC Radio 4 Desert Island Discs say that filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) was one of those people...
Starting up this blog
Well here we are starting up this blog which is going to cover my take on, well, the things I reckon I have something useful to say about. I expect to be blogging on the subject of my book i.e....