I’d rather have a hole
…than an ass-hole. A controversial response to the question ‘what happens if I let someone go and don’t have a replacement?’ It’s definitely worth some thought though isn’t it? I’d wager that on the whole, this person isn’t an ass-hole but something, somewhere is making them behave like one. Dealing with under-performance is a daunting […]
Mindfulness : business betterness or bandwagon?
33 million results when you google “mindfulness”, this buddhist practice is spreading like wild fire, across the globe and coming to your desk soon. Backed by major players young and old: Arianna Huffington, Oprah Winfrey, Jaden and Willow Smith, Boris Johnson and his team at City Hall, the England football team, and businesses like Goldman […]
What’s the cost of a revolution?
There is a digital revolution going on and if you’re reading this post…on this site then that is probably not new news. Many conversations on the subject eventually turn to the wider reaching effects of this revolution on our society particularly in regard to jobs and wealth creation. Whether advances in technology are creating more […]
Do you feel special?
Answer is no, I don’t. I’ve been applying for jobs recently, something I haven’t done for a very long time. And it’s no fun at all. As someone who knows a bit about recruitment, I am genuinely shocked at how little we have all learned. We’re not ‘winning the war for talent’ we are hiding behind curtains […]
Digital and Creative sector stats … what the numbers say
If you haven’t heard about it before the Commission for Employment and Skills is a publicly funded, industry led organisation. Its commissioners are a social partnership made up of CEOs of large and small businesses, employment advisors and Trade Union representatives from across the UK. In June 2015 they published their Insights for the digital and creative […]
Any time, any place, any where
“… working the martini way in the technology driven work places of the future.” So fetch me a cocktail while I lounge and strategise in some tropical co-working space so much further east than Shoreditch. Working anytime, any place, in paradise – who wouldn’t want that? The millennials want autonomy, particularly over their time. Flexible working is already a reality, and fluidity in […]
Robot Wars and the end of nice
How would you outwit a robot? Technological singularity is still a long-ish way off, but machines replacing manpower, and computers beating chess champions is well in the past. “By the early 70s, robots were taking over production work that required flexibility and dexterity – cutting, welding, assembling. By the end of the decade, they were flying planes […]
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