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Are managers just witch-doctors?

Anyone who reads Chris Dillow’s blog regularly will know that he is, to say the least, sceptical about the difference managers can make to an organisation. This piece made me laugh: To a large extent, the value of firms is … Continue reading...

Published 3 Feb 2012 9:35 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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The new NHS – a bit like the old NHS but more expensive

Paul Corrigan was at an NHS conference last week, during which Andrew Lansley tried to persuade the new Clinical Commissioning Groups to take on staff from the existing Primary Care Trusts. That’s odd, thought Paul, because a year ago these …...

Published 7 Nov 2011 9:04 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Why is the public sector so complex?

Henley’s Professor Simon Collinson reckons that central government departments are 30 percent more complex than private companies. He has developed a methodology to measure the level of complexity in an organisation and has come up with the Global...

Published 19 Mar 2012 6:35 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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The NHS – it’s a system, stupid!

The NHS risk register, or at least the version of it that has made it into the public domain, doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. I’ve discussed many of the risks at length here and Father Dougal spotted … Continue...

Published 29 Mar 2012 9:43 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Peak State revisited

Last week, risk management analysts Maplecroft rated the UK and a number of other European countries as extreme fiscal risks. All but one of the countries at the top of the company’s Fiscal Risk Index are in Europe. Maplecroft reported: Europe is...

Published 1 Mar 2011 8:56 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Red tape and red herrings

Faced with a stagnating economy, the government is coming up with some whizzy ideas for stimulating economic growth, such as letting people drive at 80 mph and extending the threshold for unfair dismissal claims to two years’ service. Today, the...

Published 3 Oct 2011 12:29 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Are we losing our autonomy at work?

The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty thinks we are. While we may have more power as consumers, he says, at work we are more regimented and controlled than ever before. In shops, the layout is dictated by head office, while the produce arrives …...

Published 5 Jan 2012 11:52 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Do Tory EU sceptics really want us to be more like Switzerland?

Something funny happened this weekend. Lots of right-ish Tories, some of them self-professed libertarians, started saying they wanted Britain to be more like Switzerland. David Cameron’s veto means that Britain can be more like Switzerland, cheered...

Published 13 Dec 2011 11:47 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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HR Shire

Now this made me laugh. Quite a lot. Read More...

Published 4 Jul 2010 7:36 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Time out

I’m off for a few days on a finance and risk management action learning event. Normal service (whatever that is) will be resumed next week. Read More...

Published 12 Apr 2012 6:10 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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What are companies for?

Or perhaps a better question would be, ‘Who are companies for?’ This question was going through my mind when I read Neil Morrison’s stirring call to arms last week, urging companies to create jobs. We all know the state of … Continue...

Published 15 Feb 2012 5:03 PM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Vanity Projects

Despite living in Australia, John Band often has more of a grip on the detail of British news stories than many people here. As he explained yesterday, the taxpayer has not been fleeced by G4s over the Olympic security contract. … Continue reading...

Published 18 Jul 2012 10:27 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Financiers and pimps

I was going to do an April Fools’ Day post about a report by a free market think-tank and a group of private equity bosses, claiming that tiresome and outdated laws on under-age sex were damaging the economy. The dead … Continue reading →...

Published 2 Apr 2012 7:32 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Government shared services: Cost £1.4bn, savings…erm….

Government shared services are getting beaten up again. Most of the information in the Commons Public Accounts Committee’s report on government shared services was drawn from the NAO report published earlier this year (See previous post.) but it...

Published 11 Jul 2012 8:24 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Are religious people really suffering workplace discrimination?

This week’s Mandy Rice-Davies award goes to a study which found ‘substantial’ religious discrimination in the workplace. The evidence? Religious people told the researchers they had been discriminated against. What sort of discrimination...

Published 21 Sep 2012 10:34 AM by Flip Chart Fairy Tales

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Are managers just witch-doctors?

The new NHS – a bit like the old NHS but more expensive

Why is the public sector so complex?

The NHS – it’s a system, stupid!

Peak State revisited

Red tape and red herrings

Are we losing our autonomy at work?

Do Tory EU sceptics really want us to be more like Switzerland?

HR Shire

Time out

What are companies for?

Vanity Projects

Financiers and pimps

Government shared services: Cost £1.4bn, savings…erm….

Are religious people really suffering workplace discrimination?