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How long can you spend in the ZOUD?
Zoud sounds like it should be a middle-eastern city but it is actually an acronym for Zone Of Uncomfortable Debate. It’s another of those pithy little terms, like Lemon Dropping and Marmite Employee, that conveys a lot of meaning in … Continue...
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10 Jun 2010 1:23 PM
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Spending cuts will hit jobs outside the public sector
Unless it’s all a joke and George Osborne is just messing with us, he will be announcing big public spending cuts today. Some of the first people to notice will be those working in the public sector. According to the ONS, … Continue reading...
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22 Jun 2010 10:21 AM
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Government sets up efficiency hit squad – and warns HR to prepare for a storm
Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has set up “a strong but streamlined group to drive efficiency across government”. The team, known as the Efficiency and Reform Group, is to be based in the Cabinet Office and will include Peter Gershon...
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16 Jun 2010 9:21 AM
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Rose Gibb’s payoff was legal after all
Remember Rose Gibb? She was the hospital chief executive who was given a payoff to quit her job after a Clostridium difficile (C.diff) outbreak in which 90 people died. After she had signed what she thought was a legally binding agreement, … Continue...
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25 Jun 2010 5:37 PM
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John Redwood caught talking rubbish again
John Redwood proves today that having a Cambridge degree and a background in banking still doesn’t stop you from talking bollocks about the economy. “Why are there cuts when spending is going up?” he asks, “Running all the key...
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28 Jun 2010 7:53 PM
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Can the government really stop the compensation culture?
David Cameron has declared war on the compensation culture and has asked former cabinet minister Lord Young to review health and safety laws. And, as Daily Mail writers and blustering bloggers know, the chief cause of the compensation culture is NuLabour...
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14 Jun 2010 7:27 PM
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How bad will the cuts be?
Hey, the good news (or not, depending on your point of view) is that public spending is going to rise from £696.8bn this year to £757.5bn in 2015-16. (See Page 45 of the budget report.) This seems to have caused confusion … Continue reading →...
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24 Jun 2010 9:34 AM
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Bow-ties and management
We’re off to a posh do tonight and this random thought occurred to me as I was getting my stuff together. Managing people is a bit like tying a bow-tie. The theory is beautifully simple. It’s the execution that’s tricky. … Continue...
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19 Jun 2010 10:51 AM
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Are people starting work earlier?
Is it just me or are people getting up earlier these days? Over the past year I have been working on a project which has involved a slightly longer journey than usual so I’ve often been on the road or the train … Continue reading → Read...
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11 Jun 2010 4:55 PM
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Leave the Cabinet in Bradford
No, I’m serious. We should send the rest of the government, Parliament and the Civil Service up there with them. There must be an old castle or country house around there that the Queen could use too. The government has said … Continue reading...
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29 Jun 2010 3:46 PM
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For every public sector job lost, one will go in the private sector too
Today’s Guardian reports on some unpublished Treasury documents which estimate the impact of the government’s planned spending cuts. According to these projections, for every public sector job lost at least one will be lost in the private...
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30 Jun 2010 7:16 AM
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British company looks east for its IPO
I’ve written a couple of pieces before about our obsession with London being the world’s pre-eminent financial centre. It’s a useful shroud for the financial services industry to wave and it plays well in the British press. We used to...
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29 Jun 2010 9:46 AM
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It’s an ill wind that blows no cash to IT consultants
Remember the Conservatives promising to scrap government IT projects? Well this should cheer the IT consultants up: Systems will have to be redesigned and reports written to ensure the information can be extracted from finance systems, and this has to...
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11 Jun 2010 6:22 PM
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Cameron tries the old it’s-worse-than-we-thought ruse
A month before the election Manchester University’s Colin Talbot pleaded with the future government not to use the old it’s-worse-than-we-thought trick. I suspect that anyone who has been around for as long as Professor Talbot would know deep...
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7 Jun 2010 1:54 PM
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Would splitting up the banks protect us from a re-run of 2008?
I really want to believe all this stuff about the benefits of splitting up retail and investment banks. I’d love it to be that simple. Split the sober stable retail banks from the crazy greed-driven investment banks and our economy and our savings...
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17 Jun 2010 8:16 PM
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