Category: Management Consulting
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Interviewing for promotion means thinking bigger
So you have spent a few years in your first or second job and you have got really good at it and it is time to get promoted. How can you ace the interview? Career Progression A typical career progression is, What are interviewers asking at a promotion interview? Can they do the new job?…
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Should Managers or HR hire?
Most of my work has been for smaller organisations in highly competitive environments. In these organisations HR is not an empowered function and most hiring is done personally by managers. In larger organisations and those that are not subject to much competition for example, the BBC or Microsoft, then HR and their hiring quotas and…
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“The Checklist Manifesto” is a game-changing book
What is it about? The author’s key message is that the volume and complexity of knowledge today has exceeded any single individual’s ability to manage it consistently without error despite material advances in technology, boatloads of more training and super-specialization of functions and responsibilities. Yet, despite demonstrating that checklists produce results, there is resistance…
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How to be Productive (part 1): The Action Book
Productivity is not everything but in the long run it is almost everything Paul Kruger In the long run your success at work will be determined by your productivity. Productive people make more stuff, sell more things, impress more people and do better. So how do you become more productive? This series of articles, sponsored…
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Don’t occidentally send porn to kids
Murphy’s law is that “everything that can go wrong will” but even he could not have expected a supplier to accidentally send pornographic DVD’s to school children instead of copies of their school play. It took me some time to find a management “moral” from this story but here it is, you always need a…
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How to review your own performance after 1 year
I have a friend and colleague who has just completed one year in a new role. He is a middle manager in a dynamic international firm. I think that the first year in job is very important, most businesses have an annual cycle and it is only after a whole year that you can begin to understand…
Dr James Bayley 