April 24, 2007
Guru can only apologise to his disciples that yesterday's first blog posting was late (uploaded at 12.15pm, rather than the usual pre-9am).
Guru had arrived in the office nice and early and begun his 15-minute index finger warm up routine, when he was suddenly called into an urgent Personneltoday.com meeting to "review our taxonomy in order to maximise our website traffic".
Guru said he couldn't see what stuffing animals had to do with the internet, but helpfully volunteered to select some of his less vivacious colleagues for the treatment anyway. That seemed to get Guru off the hook and he slept undisturbed through the rest of the meeting.
Anyway, all this is by way of a rather long-winded introduction to today's real story, which is that Wendy Cartwright, head of HR at the Olympic Delivery Authority, has finally broken cover (after no doubt being subjected to the sort of endless and pointless internal meetings exemplified above).
And she has done so by posting on to the London 2012 blog. Wendy writes:
It's a very busy time for us in the Olympic Delivery Authority's human resources team, as we are still doing lots of organisational set-up work, including reviewing our HR policies and recruiting staff.Because of this, I don't seem to get much opportunity at the moment to get out and about to meet people outside of the ODA and our partner organisations.
Wendy, consider this blog post an invitation to meet up with Guru over a swanky lunch and pick his brains about high-level HR matters. And all Guru asks in return is courtside tickets and a backstage pass for the Olympic Ladies Beach Volleyball final.
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