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Providing insight or hidden by pillars? The future role of HR
A couple of weeks ago, we published a posting – Chinese whispers and the Captain’s Table – that looked at the potential implications of HR being downgraded within an organisation, or losing its own...
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What are you reading for? A question for businesses as well as students
The quote is from Bill Hicks, deceased US comedian, but it swam back into my memory as I alternated between flicking through the pile of unread broadsheet newspapers by the sofa and watching University...
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If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests?
An article by Carly Chynoweth in the October issue of People Management, Endurance Tests, makes me wonder if the business world has finally come out of a coma. Glancing at the patient’s notes, I notice...
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The Last Laugh? Reasons for education
A few weeks ago, I belatedly saw An Education, the film inspired by Lynn Barber’s memoirs of her teenage years. Although Ms Barber has made it clear in interviews that the film isn’t a verbatim...
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Book review: Bounce by Matthew Syed
This review should start with a confession. In the spirit of the one of the ‘Mottos to work by’ at Bully OnLine’s Bad boss jokes page – “Plagiarism saves time”, one of the messages from Bounce has...
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Peter Mandleson: the big reveal?
If you missed it, Mandleson: The Real PM? (which aired on BBC4 last night) will be on iPlayer for a little while, and was a fascinating but perplexing and frustrating watch. That ‘Real PM?’ was a tease...
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Parting is such bitter sweet sorrow
“[…] that I should say good-night until it be ‘morrow.” Shakespeare, of course: neither the words nor the sentiment were very likely to be those of a football manager. In a sport – and a major business...
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Square Pegs and Round Holes: Strategies for Assessing Talent
Many things have been said about talent over the centuries, and not just by wise men or women: in selecting the quotes that follow shortly, I excluded many that contrast talented with genius (and often...
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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...
View ArticlePotentially disappointing: stepping into a CEO’s shoes
In so many aspects of human life, we take comfort in ideas such as ‘practise makes perfect’ (indeed, Malcolm Gladwell’s bank manager may well agree) and ‘The only source of knowledge is experience.”...
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