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Difficult Conversations
Good People Management
Redundancy, Redeployment and transferable skills
Is it better to be feared than loved?
Doing More with Less
The filing cabinet disciplinary
When Revolting is good
Doing More with Less
I’ve been to New York – I’ve seen the future
Who’s in Charge?
Managers take too much credit
Public Sector Managers Lament
Firing the Incompetent
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Don’t make me work with idiots.
You’re having a laugh
Never fear the interim manager is here
Cutting your way to the top
No-one expects the Spanish Inquisition
So what?
The Godfather
A dress face for Esmeralda
The X Factor
How to fail without really trying
Too scared to take a holiday
Conversation with an ambulance driver
Businessmen and women with medical degrees
It’s a Modern Office Horror Story
The Importance of Trivia
In the current economic climate you’d think people would try harder
What a waste
Heroes and Villains
Fear of Flying
Like Watching the Detectives
My Big Fat Diet
So what’s wrong with wearing a dress to work?
The return of the Mad Men
Is it worth complaining
My Manager Doesn’t Understand Me
Made in Dagenham
Stop me if I’ve said this before
The Easy Council
Undercover Boss
The Big Fairy Tale Society
The Fall
Do I really want a relationship with my plumber?
Which things will I leave undone?
Good Enough will Have to Do
Dexter and the difference between right and wrong
UnLearning management
Big Society – Why don’t we get volunteers to run the museum?
Equipping managers to manage a diverse work force
Who will tackle the wicked issues if Local authorities don’t?
A letter from the future : what happens when the money runs out
Slash and Burn
Not so easy council
It’s a Modern Office Horror Story (part of the scary cuts series)
They Only Come Out at Night
UnLearning management
Over worked and undervalued
Pow wow with the big chief
Bride and Prejudice
Hopelessly Optimistic or just hopeless?
An Awkward Customer
Can a local authority go bust?
Difficult times for managers
Is bluffing a legitimate management skill?
Now we can stop lying
Tough Talk
Hogwash is not the title of a new Harry Potter book
Featured manager of the week
Wicked games
Risks facing GPs as NICE loses power on drug scrips
Its cold outside
Rubbish
The Book of the Dead
What does it matter it morale is low
M.A.D. Take Time To Make Time
What Does Your Business Card Say About You?
Tips To Help You Survive The Festive Season
Monkey business at council zoo
Do you trust your manager?
Boredom at work
Being Interviewed For Your Own Job
NHS and social services tested to limit by cuts – MPs
How To Raise Your Profile
On the eve of the publication of the Government’s next step on its White Paper what do people think about their NHS?
Equipping Managers for an Uncertain Future – Blair McPherson’s new book
Government to press ahead with radical NHS reform plans
Making the interview process more entertaining
Liberating the NHS – Next steps. The role of GP Commissioning
Gossip is Good
Flesh coloured underwear and socks without cartoon motifs
Next steps – Providers of health care and how they will be liberated by regulation
M.A.D. What Have You Achieved This Year?
How To Achieve Your New Year Resolutions
My Management Hero
A little reflection
Advisory booklet – Stress at work
What “What’s my incentive?”
Can we still afford equality for women?
What’s my name?
Goodbye to NHS reform in 2010 ….
Hello NHS reform in 2011
Shameless – the return of
Pensioner crime wave-a bi product of living longer?
Read them and weep
The BBC was not being ageist
This charming man (or woman)
GP commissioning pathfinders: Oxfordshire retains county style
Equality for women no longer needed
How many Chief Executives are truly indispensible?
Have a go President- Nice one Richard
Ambitious managers are like sharks
All things Private
Sexism is a failure of leadership
The Phantom Menace
I’m alright Jack
Hands Off
The Big Society strangled at birth
So why didn’t you do something?
I don’t blame the nurses
We can work it out
My Big fat Gypsy Wedding
Leaders who don’t do U turns
The good news and the bad news
Turkeys don’t vote for Christmas
Pizza saves woman’s life
Travelling backwards
Revolving doors
Over night the over 55’s disappeared
500 Channels and nothing to watch
Return of card board city
A day centre we can afford to close
Mind the gap
Lobster on the menu
Multiculturalism the way forward
Sharks and potholes
Multiculturalism isn’t dead
Guns on the high street
Going to the right Uni
High heels and low journalism
Manning Up
Management in 100 words
Dress code for announcing budget cuts!
In Paris they don’t call the ambulance service they call the fire brigade
Car Crash (2011)
Nurse Jackie
The days are getting longer in the NHS
The American version
Workplace conflict
What politicians mean by consultation
The louder you scream the faster we go
Bigging it Up
We are not selling shoes we are selling beautiful feet
Sailor on nuclear sub goes berserk with rifle
Make them laugh
Coaching and mentoring as a way of developing leadership skills
Heroes and villains
Are you gay? Do you have a disability? What is your religion? Equal opportunity monitoring.
Do more tough female cops mean the police are becoming less sexist?
A goby scouser
The Bad news
Domestic violence and the “slut walk”
Bad Jobs
Race and identity
Cuts to care services unlawful
The NHS needs more managers
The triumph of hope over experience
You must care and not care at the same time
Hate Crimes
Personalisation
Too Old to Rock and Roll
Management is not just about implementing decisions you agree with
Time to reinvent Local Authorities as providers of care
Britain’s Got Talent
What’s going on?
Modern leadership in the Public Sector
Whatever happened to so and so
“I’d kick the chief ex in the balls”
In praise of bureaucracy
It’s good to talk-equality and diversity for leaders
Sexuality and social housing
Helping your staff progress
Beyond Samosas and Reggae
4 in a bed
Nurse Jackie is back
I don’t want to sell my house
How to get a better job
The use of management scenarios to develop leadership skills
How to be unforgettable
Rob a bank to get health care
The Americans think they do it better
They call it “ethical fading”
After the storm
Doing a Richard and Judy
Millionaire keen to show poor are happy
The myth that staff are resistant to change
Do you have something to tell us?
Don’t waste your time
Robocop policing and draconian sentencing aren’t the answer
No one cares how hard you work
Bullying doesn’t bother staff
Better the Devil you know
Which type of manager are you?
What should my next move be?
How many Chief Executives are truly indispensible?
It’s not the money it’s the people
Romany Gypsies and Irish Travellers (Nightmare neighbours or persecuted minority)
Yes Man
It’s that time of year again
Over to you. No over to you.
Floor to ceiling porn
A financial decision
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it
If the Chief Excusive and Director don’t believe it…
Off the record and between the lines
A hard lesson for an ambitious manager
The Head Hunter
Is the public sector running out of ideas?
NHS Trusts employ struck off nurses
Don’t make important decisions on an empty bladder
The vexatious complainant and internet rants
Culture eats strategy for breakfast
Culture eats Equality strategy for breakfast
The rush to judgment
Let’s get rid of the Chief Ex
Change is good-not
Top tips on Equality and Diversity training
Flu jab
Why do people climb through the window when the door is open?
Helping patients by casting out their demons
Long legs, short skirts and blond
Success has many parents but failure is an orphan.
Who could be against choice?
Poor Leadership = Bad Care
So how far have we come in the last 175 years?
This is not a victory
Whose finger prints are on the back stabbing knife?
It wasn’t me
Commissioning is mans work
I speak of the failure of community care
Customer care alone is not enough
How to win that grant
How to maintain morale when the future is so bleak
Community care is dead
Rediscovering the Public Sector ethos
Talk about telling us what we already know.
Easier to chop off their heads
What is the difference between a directly elected mayor and a chief executive?
First you take our jobs then you stealing our clothes
Billons invested in complex loans the boss did not understand
What is the difference between a whistle blower and a trouble maker?
I would be surprised if you’re surprised
How to win that grant
Can you make a racist remark and not be racist?
Don’t let 2012 by the year of pessimism and cynicism
Bad things happened
Why do you keep banging on about Equality and Diversity?
Too many generals
Suckers and rip off merchants
Racism in the office and in the staff room
Miss Congeniality
Million pound award
Will the Lords do the right thing?
It’s not just cattle that get branded
Pay up, save thousands and avoid the bad publicity
There are many ways to get rid of a Director
If staff morale is at an all time low you know you are doing something right
Hobby consultants
Managing gay men
Is it alright for a man to wear black eyeliner to work?
National Libraries Day
Libraries are about more than just borrowing books
We are too busy
So size does matter
Leave the NHS alone you big bully
This is what we did on our away day
The team building myth
Ours is not to reason why
Why do leaders find it so difficult to admit they could be wrong?
Multiculturalism is alive and kicking
Is fiddling the figures all part of the game now?
“David Cameron and the upstarts” sounds like a reggae band
Diversity is good for business or so I have heard
Meetings make you stupid
The Professionals
Are you a collaborator?
My dad said
How to be unforgettable
Yes, Cabinet member
Yes we do talk about you
What is institutional racism?
Are we just a becoming a crueler nation?
Chatter boxing
Why there is no good news
Where does loyalty end?
Curry College
When does taking an interest become interfering
Divide and Rule
Tests, exams and league tables
Sick as a parrot
Racism in the Ranks
Teachers get bullied to
Ricky Gervais a legitimate target?
The only reward for hard work is more work
Simon meets the head teacher
It’s a privilege
How far should a local authority go to get what it’s owed?
Inspections don’t stop abuse managers do
Sent home in the early hours
The retreat of adult social work
Don’t blame me just because I’m in charge
An Inspector calls
The bigger the lie
Mirror Mirror
Plugging the Gap
Why don’t we do what works?
I don’t want them to feel comfortable
The numbers can’t hear you
Bounce back ability
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