Archive | November, 2011
Elvis Costello not suited to sales role
Line managers of sales staff might sympathise with Universal Music. Although plenty of managers will have sales staff who just won’t work hard enough, or refuse to up-sell, few will have to deal with staff issuing statements discouraging customers from… continue
What’s in a name?
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Reading the very excellent Flip Chart Fairy Tales blog on income inequality and some analysis of the faulty logic behind senior management pay, Guru was struck by a neat corollary between nonsense job titles and the pay… continue
Blatter announces realisation of Martin Luther King’s dream
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Guru has had a busy morning rewriting the company’s equal opportunities policy to take note of recent evidence that racism doesn’t actually exist, and that if it does it’s not really that big a deal now is… continue
Some employees are stupider than others: why social media policies are worth having
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Guru could not be accused of being immersed in social media; he’d be positively offended if he were. But even Guru recognises that social media presents different challenges to an employer than older methods of communication, such… continue
RFU shames only itself with sanctioning of Tindall
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Guru is disappointed to read that Mike Tindall has been suspended from the England squad, fined ÂŁ25,000 and publicly condemned for his much-reported hijinks during the recent rugby world cup.
It’s becoming very complicated to be a… continue
God demands CEO payrise
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Guru likes to keep abreast of the great philosophical drivers behind today’s HR. That being the case he felt compelled to follow the CIPD’s tweeted recommendation that he read a blog about theology and HR converging at… continue
Capello puts work before son’s wedding
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Fabio Capello gets paid a lot of money to watch some football matches and very occasionally tell English footballers to run onto a pitch and play football. He also seems to have become pretty rubbish at doing… continue
Ministers put professionalism in the bin
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Vince Cable used to be the one man in the world who saw the credit crunch coming. Now he’s the man who doesn’t pay his taxes and puts confidential documents in public bins.
Cable is the second… continue
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