I don’t get angry often. The energy anger takes can always be used in a more positive way, but something happened this week which has set me off and I wanted to share it here. We recently bid for a piece of scoping work for a Management and Leadership programme. The requirement was pretty clear:… Read More I’m angry
Lorne Michaels is the Canadian and American television writer and film producer of a Saturday Night Live, The Kids in the Hall and The Tonight Show. In his recent biography, there are numerous stories and anecdotes which discuss topics from managing agents to managing ideas. One which stood out to me is the title of… Read More Fatigue is your friend
What ‘is’ BAU in a learning function? We love C words in L&D – collaborate, create, compare, compete, cooperate, cooperate, critical, etc. What are the B words you’d use to reflect ‘As Usual’? Let me know in the comments?
I was chatting with someone recently and asked them just how much it cost them to attract new buyers for their products. They weren’t completely sure because it is, for them, a sunk cost. Employees have been engaged, products developed, marketing designed and enabled, and advertising bought and paid for. The cost is there and… Read More Cost of business
I was on a bus last week in central London; top deck, front seat, driver’s side, i.e. the BEST seat. We passed a building which was having work done on it. I didn’t recognise it at first since the netting and covering used to protect the public from the four or five storeys of work… Read More Covering up
Lost and Desperate 