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Team-building is not just for Christmas

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It’s been another hard year for the business community and I don’t know anybody that feels relaxed about their prospects for the forthcoming year.

We need to think seriously about how we sustain staff morale not only for the Christmas partying but also for the difficult times ahead.

The ABC of Building a Senior Team

Building a Senior Management Team is as easy as ABC, so long as that doesn’t stand for Antony, Brutus and Cassius!

You can usually judge a good director by the strength and quality of their direct reports, especially once the director has been in post for more than twelve months. By then the “Number One” should have shaped the READ MORE

Will social network groups get better traction than formal associations?

I have observed that online discussion groups on general purpose networks (such as linkedin.com) are getting more traction from members than similar forums provided for members by formal associations. For example, the British Computer Society website discussion groups have been pretty moribund since their inception some time ago but the BCS “members-only” group on linkedin.com (which is only a couple READ MORE

The tweet, tweet sound of success

Great article about Twitter by Sarah Milstein in today’s New York Times. Sarah describes five good ways to use Twitter effectively for business or career purposes. No doubt there are other good uses but these tips will save time (and possibly embarrassment) for Twitter newbies.

Who is the weakest link?

BT Global Services are a major provider of outsourced IT services for thousands of businesses in the UK; customers doubtless reassured by their perception of BT as a big player.

But is that customer confidence so well placed for the future? Who will be the weakest link now that BT are outsourcing much of their “routine” services and extending the service delivery READ MORE