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The building societies ignored their core competencies
I missed this piece from John Kay, a former director of the Halifax, in the FT last week. He traces the disintegration of the demutulaised building societies, the last of which disappeared yesterday, to the deregulation of the1980s. The business I joined...
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30 Sep 2008 1:30 PM
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Government targets the private sector over equal pay
The Government Equalities Office has launched its Post Your Pay Gap initiative. The idea is that companies use the online system to calculate the gap in pay between men and women then post it on the web-site. It’s a bit like a corporate confessional...
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30 Sep 2008 11:34 AM
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Could regulation become a selling point?
Up until the past few weeks, conventional wisdom has held that financial institutions gravitate to those areas where regulation is lightest and that any attempt to impose tighter controls risks a mass exodus of these firms to a city with a more laissez...
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29 Sep 2008 12:42 PM
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NLP break
Sorry folks, I’ve been on an NLP course these past few days hence the lack of posts. And once I have completed the course, I will be able to lie to you and you will be none the wiser. Only joking! The course I am on actually makes no outlandish...
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27 Sep 2008 12:31 AM
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Blame the working-class for the financial crisis
Carl Mortishead, writing in today’s Times, blames the working-class rather than the City bankers for the current financial crisis. No, really, he’s serious: This is not a tale of City greed v the downtrodden working man. It is the triumph...
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24 Sep 2008 7:15 PM
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Getting busier
Hooray, today has been the busiest day ever on Flip Chart Fairy Tales and I haven’t even posted anything. Thanks to Personnel Today, Chris Dillow and the Bloghounds crew for all the recent links and to everyone who has commented. Keep it coming...
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24 Sep 2008 4:59 PM
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The HR 95/5 Rule
This story from the Evil HR Lady reminded me of my time as a line HR manager. This week, I had an employee come to me and complain about other employees not washing their hands after using the bathroom. They wanted me to put up signs telling people they...
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23 Sep 2008 5:56 PM
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From City slicker to public servant - not an easy jump
A local paper reports that the London Borough of Harrow wants to recruit some of the 4,000 Lehman’s employees laid off last week. I’m not sure how well this would work. I have, perhaps, a rare CV in that I have worked for a local authority...
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22 Sep 2008 4:55 PM
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Friday Credit Crunch Joke
Heard yesterday at Canary Wharf: What’s the difference between a Lehman’s trader and a pigeon? A pigeon can still leave a deposit on a Ferrari. Read More...
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19 Sep 2008 1:48 PM
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Bankers still call the tune
HBOS, we were told, could not be allowed to fail because it held a fifth of the country’s mortgages. The answer, it seems, is to waive the rules on corporate takeovers to create a bank holding….erm…. a third of the country’s savings...
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18 Sep 2008 2:25 PM
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The generations are not as different as we thought
Another article about Generation Y, this time in People Management. Before you groan, though, this research by Penna and the CIPD seems to turn a lot the received wisdom on its head. The survey found, for instance, that employers’ attitudes to social...
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17 Sep 2008 4:28 PM
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Acquisition is the easy part. Getting people to work together is much harder.
When Chief Executives say ‘Our people are our greatest asset’, they are often met with a cynical response. In the case of failed investment banks, though, their people are their only asset. Banks don’t have much in the way of buildings...
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16 Sep 2008 12:45 PM
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Lib Dem plan will mean more work for consultants
In a speech to the Liberal Democrats’ conference, Vince Cable announced a plan to make all non-front line public sector executives earning over £100,000 a year regularly reapply for their jobs to prove that they are still competent enough to do...
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15 Sep 2008 2:50 PM
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Danish pastries, doughnuts and subjectivity
Laurie Ruettimann looks at the similarities between the US presidential election and talent management in organisations. If ever there was a forum where personality and subjectivity come into play — much like the presidential election — it’s the talent...
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2 Sep 2008 2:02 PM
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Standards of Diversity
It’s that time of year again and this year’s graduate trainees are turning up to their new offices eager to join the corporate world. (It only feels like a couple of weeks since I last wrote about this. Where’s the year gone?) A friend...
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2 Sep 2008 8:19 AM
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