Book review: Tom Peters Essentials: Leadership, Aspire, Liberate, Achieve
Tom Peters’ leadership guide emphasizes inspiration, liberation, and creativity in modern workplaces. While the “Top 10 To Dos” summaries provide practical value and 50 leadership examples offer useful insights, the oversimplified content and guide-like design limit its depth and rereadability.
The HR Business Partner: Panacea or impossible role?
Many large organizations have implemented the Ulrich HR model with shared services, but HR Business Partners often struggle to deliver the promised value-add partnership to the business. Implementation challenges include line managers avoiding people management responsibilities and unclear business outcomes driving the transformation.
HR Business Partnering – What does it really mean?
HR Business Partners act as strategic consultants who help organizations maximize their people’s potential to drive business success. This represents a significant shift from traditional HR roles, requiring professionals to combine deep HR expertise with comprehensive business knowledge and change management capabilities.
Diary of an Advertising Manager
An advertising manager shares her personal transformation after attending an Anthony Robbins event, gaining insights into negative behavior patterns and achieving major life goals including purchasing a flat.
The Couch?! HR Nightmares
HR managers face daily workplace challenges from awkward conversations about employee hygiene to conducting investigations and navigating employment tribunals. This article explores the top ten HR nightmares that professionals in the field dread most, inviting readers to share their own frustrating experiences and amusing anecdotes.
Diary of a Sales Manager
A sales manager documents his skeptical journey through a four-day personal development seminar, discovering unexpected insights about communication, limiting beliefs, and peer comparison while questioning whether the experience truly creates lasting change.
Firms failing to align business strategy with HR
Many organisations fail to align manager incentives and rewards with HR strategy objectives, despite linking them to broader business goals. Research from 49 public and private sector firms shows that while 69% partially reflect strategic priorities in HR budgets, only six in ten base HR strategies on organisational plans, risking competitive disadvantage.
Women workers are key to filling long-term skills gap
Women workers are essential to addressing the UK’s long-term skills gap, particularly in accounting where the workforce is already 80% female. Organizations must invest in training and development for female staff to bridge critical skill shortages and improve business resilience.
Charles Handy: Humane Management
Charles Handy, Europe’s preeminent business thinker, distinguishes between “human management” and “human resource management,” arguing the latter belongs to an obsolete corporate model. He explains how modern business divides into “elephants” (large, bureaucratic corporations) and “fleas” (agile, creative contractors), requiring organizations to prioritize flexibility and effectiveness over traditional efficiency.
E-mail your way to the top!
E-mail communication reveals much about career prospects, according to management research. Top executives often use poor grammar and spelling, while carefully crafted messages signal middle-management status. Learning to use e-mail effectively is essential for climbing the corporate ladder.
Amanda Jones – Profile
Amanda Jones brings 22 years of IT and financial business experience as Head of Business Excellence at Barclays’ Service Provision. She has championed diversity initiatives for eight years, earning organizational recognition and multiple awards for her work in equal opportunities.
New Policy for public sector IT systems
The UK Government launched the e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) to enable public sector IT systems to communicate seamlessly, supporting the goal of moving all government services online by 2005. The policy aims to create 24-hour one-stop government access and reduce bureaucracy by electronically joining information across departments.
