Do Organizational scars and stretch-marks last forever?

scar by daliborlev on flickr

Organizational scars, like bodily scars, are borne forever and affect us long after the causal events. This may seem very simplistic. But it is an important perspective for every business to recognise the persistently damaged areas of the organizational nervous system.

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New Government IT Strategy - fundamentally flawed?

Shotgun Wedding strategy for Government IT

jayne by lamont_cranston on flickr

According to Tony Collins, the UK Government CIO Council will be asked, by the Cabinet Office, to approve an interim ICT strategy that looks fundamentally flawed before the ink is dry: a shotgun wedding strategy.

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are recruitment agents a taboo subject?

recruitment poster by Metropolitan Police on flickr

This is a sincerely serious question, without any inferior motive: I wonder why we don’t see more people writing about their experiences with recruitment agents? Is it just a co-incidence, or is it a really taboo subject that candidates and publishers deliberately avoid writing about?

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making meetings more effective

going round the table is a waste of time

white horse round table by id-iom on flickr

So-called ‘face time’ is increasingly precious to all of us, which makes me wonder why we routinely waste so much time, at the beginning of meetings, by ‘going round the table’ to introduce ourselves to each other.

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Pitching an idea?

coming soon by ellbrown on flickr

Pitching is the most commonly used sporting analogy for making a business proposal but do we ever stop and think about how many different interpretations can be made of the term?

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