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Sharing the feast – the economics of taste
Last Friday’s Independent ran an article with a headline that raised both my hackles and my eyebrows. I speak – and react – as both a foodie and very much a ‘non-Econ’, as anyone who saw my reaction to...
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The Apprentice, Episode 9: Old Wine in New Bottles
In showing that – in real life – winning is sometimes a matter of losing less thoroughly than the others, the episode has sounded a rare note of actual reality. By avoiding a mercenary ‘counting the...
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The Apprentice, Episode 10: I’ll be right with you – just polishing my petard
One of the central conundrums of the last two series – and we’ve said it before too – is that the prize is an investment in a business plan. Not only are the candidates not apprentices (a title that...
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The Apprentice: The Final Five
As a programme that showed all five candidates in less comical/critical lights (it was far more sober and reflective than the task episodes, much to its merit), all emerged as more likeable, personable...
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The Apprentice Semi-Final: Sugar, all things nice and puppy dog’s shaving balm
We’ve introduced you to the runners and riders for this penultimate hurdles challenge of the season, and let you review their form in the paddock. So let’s get the cameras rolling and take you to West...
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The Apprentice Final: Does Sugar Take Him?
The title never really belonged: whatever the programme has ever been, a structured learning programme with constant mentoring isn’t it. The task format worked while it was about picking an employee,...
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Q&A Session with Katie Wright, Apprentice 2012 Candidate
When one of the contestants on this year's The Apprentice favourited one of our tweets about the series, we were flattered (we are human) and intrigued. As we've often wondered how the experience feels...
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Your loyalty is indispensable; your presence, not so much
I’ll be honest before I type anything more: this isn’t the most fully-thought through contribution I’ve made to this blog. But the thoughts that are swimming around here have lurked at the margins of...
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Learning from losing)
There are a lot of truths in this world, relayed to us at varying volume levels and frequencies. Some of the most interesting or illuminating, however, are uttered so rarely or so quietly that they...
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The past is another country – they play different songs there …
Ah, Jubilee time. Fireworks, flags a-flutter, and BBC TV series about that other fond memory of 1977: punk. (That jubilee coincided with my seventeeth birthday: specific memories are hazy, but bunting,...
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The Apprentice Final: Does Sugar Take Him?
So here we are at The Final. Even if I’m not entirely about the numbers (as my MBTI and other psychometric experiences confirmed), I can calculate on the spot pretty well for someone whose background...
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Q&A Session with Katie Wright, Apprentice 2012 Candidate
When one of the contestants on this year’s The Apprentice favourited one of our tweets about the series, we were flattered (we are human) and intrigued. As we’ve often wondered how the experience feels...
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Your loyalty is indispensable; your presence, not so much
I’ll be honest before I type anything more: this isn’t the most fully-thought through contribution I’ve made to this blog. But the thoughts that are swimming around here have lurked at the margins of...
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Try again. Fail again. Fail better. (Learning from losing)
There are a lot of truths in this world, relayed to us at varying volume levels and frequencies. Some of the most interesting or illuminating, however, are uttered so rarely or so quietly that they...
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The past is another country – they play different songs there …
Ah, Jubilee time. Fireworks, flags a-flutter, and BBC TV series about that other fond memory of 1977: punk. (That jubilee coincided with my seventeeth birthday: specific memories are hazy, but bunting,...
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I want to sell you a story …
Those of you who are now being coy about their age, or who watch very elderly repeat programmes on cable, may recognise the title as a pun on a Max Bygraves quote. (Well, actually a pun on a pun on a...
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Passion is no ordinary word
First impressions. Important things, them. Ever looked up from your desk to encounter someone for the first time and wished you were on Britain’s Got Talent so you could press a button and huge red Xs...
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Two Way Monologues
Maybe working in a second language encourages you to be brave, or allows you to bend convention – being typically English, I’m not competent enough in another tongue to know. But one of my favourite...
View ArticleHR + IT = HRT: Algebra or Alchemy?
HR Magazine has been running an HR Technology series of special articles, of which the first – David Woods’ Should HR and IT be friends? – caught my eye, not least as the title was couched as a...
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With power comes …
If Peter Drucker’s estate received a pound every time someone quotes his words “Culture eats strategy for breakfast”, the proceeds would probably fund a truly VIP mausoleum – or possibly a...
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