Do the Hokey Cokey We all know this song from our childhood and various parties where we all get in a line and aimlessly follow the leader who is acting the buffoon. Well this is farce that the EU vote is descending into, on the remain in side we are being fed scare story after …
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Never accept a counter offer
Never accept a counter offer A subject I find myself coming back to time and again when talking with people about their future career. You have been with the same company for many years, you do your job well, you obey the rules and to an extent you are comfortable in your position. Then you …
Bubbles
Bubbles Can you remember when we were children and our fascination with bubbles, how with a little puff of air these magnificent globes of suds would appear and hover in the air; then slowly they would start to float away on the current and bob around mesmerising us as the suns’ rays changed their iridescent …
Confidence
Confidence Many of our successful individual clients mention to me that despite their experience they still suffer pre-interview nerves; this really is quite normal and is nothing to be worried about. Even after running this business for 20 years I sometimes feel anxious before meeting a new corporate customer or even an individual client who …
Has Diversity and equality gone too far?
Yesterday I was talking to a manager in a large financial institution that has fully embraced all the guidelines and rules. His team has gays, lesbians, an appropriate quota of females and ethnic minorities and has decided that the next hire must be a white male. Whatever happened to employing the most suitable person for …
Who is watching the watchers?
Who is watching the watchers? Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear about another corruption scandal at some large multinational corporation, a quasi-government body, a charity or a ruling sporting body. How surprised were we all to hear that FIFA has been embroiled in nefarious practices and that bribery was pandemic? Next on …
Evolution of your career
Evolution of your career It is a fact in nature that the fittest survive while those not up to the task wither and die. The same analogy can be applied to your working career. You start your career with great aspirations for the future, you know that you are better than the rest and that …
Whistleblowers need protection
Much in the news today about whistleblowers in the NHS who find themselves bullied and isolated for having the temerity to speak out and criticise. It is being suggested that every trust should appoint a guardian to support whistleblowers and they would report to a national “tsar”. This is a futile gesture which will only …
Private equity – benefit or blight?
The demise of Citylink with the announcement on Christmas Eve really should raise questions about the role and conduct of the private equity industry. It is inconceivable that those running the company did not know it was unviable much earlier and must have known that even with the industry benefitting from its most lucrative time …
Happy Christmas
Happy Christmas There I have said it and I don’t care if it offends anyone in this silly PC world we now live in. People who know me know that I am far from religious, but this time of year is traditionally called Christmas; albeit it that it timing coincides with earlier pagan festivals. The …