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Corporate Social Irresponsibility

History Repeating I first read about the Post Office Horizon scandal in my Computer Weekly rag…
Embarrassing Business Bonuses and Objectionable Office Objectives (Part 2: You Want Me to do What!)

What Do You Want? With performance bonuses and pay rises now commonly tied to personal objectives…
A Sadist’s Guide to Punishing People with PoorPoint

The second worst business activity, after Zoom calls obviously, is sitting through a presentation. Not one of…
Leadership and the One Minute Manager

Having ranted extensively on how not to manage (Be a Cracking Post-COVID Chief, Don’t Step in…
Emotional Intelligence

Teenage Dirtbag Where are you on the Emo scale? By Emo I mean Emotional Intelligence, as…
The Great Resignation

Apparently, thousands of ungrateful staff are leaving their companies in droves now that they naively believe…
Pandemic Reflections

How’s everyone feeling about the new normal? Huh, you’re not happy? It’s not working for you? What, it’s…
Minimise Meaningless Meetings

Most meetings are meaningless for the majority of members. They are probably the second most time-wasting business…
Dodgy Data-driven Decision-making

We’ve heard a lot over the last year about ‘following the science’ or ‘following the data’. This…
Be a Cracking Post-COVID Chief

One of the unexpected but illuminating consequences of spending the last nine months OoO and/or WFH…