Published Articles
Please note that most of my articles originally published on Public Servant are now available on my blog.
| Publication | Article | Date |
|---|---|---|
| HR Director | What really lies behind the data | 14-January-2022 |
| HR Director | Biggest challenge in 2022 is getting the tone right | 12-January-2022 |
| HR Director | Has HR become Big Brother | 11-January-2022 |
| HR Director | Loyalty has to be reciprocated | 10-January-2022 |
| HR Director | Survival of the friendliest | 28-December-2021 |
| HR Director | Did they jump or were they pushed? | 19-December-2021 |
| MJ | Why do bosses call so many meetings? | 16-December-2021 |
| HR Director | Getting HR to investigate is the easy part | 16-December-2021 |
| HRD Magazine | Never the Twain | December-2021 |
| HR Director | Spotting the signs of organisational burnout | 8-December-2021 |
| HR Director | When leaders are asleep at the wheel | 29-November-2021 |
| HR Director | Are you trying to be deliberately awkward? | 27-November-2021 |
| HR Director | The tail should not wag the dog | 25-November-2021 |
| HR Director | When does banter become bullying? | 24-November-2021 |
| HR Director | The awkward squad…or are they? | 21-November-2021 |
| HRD Magazine | Disruptive Harmony | November 2021 |
| HR Director | When HR sucks the fun out of the workplace | 15-November-2021 |
| HR Director | When management communication is just blah,blah, blah | 14-November-2021 |
| HR Director | The dangers of too much internal promotion | 12-November-2021 |
| HR Director | Critical Race Theory | 9-November-2021 |
| MJ | What have you done for me lately? | 8-November-2021 |
| HR Director | Defying Bela Guttmann’s Three Year Rule | 5 November-2021 |
| HR Director | Sustainability. What can we hope from COP 26 | 3-November-2021 |
| MJ | How teams react when their manager is doomed | 21-October-2021 |
| HR Director | What Squid Games tells us about the scourge of debt | 20-October-2021 |
| HR Director | There is unorthodox and then there is inhuman | 19-October-2021 |
| HR Director | Ethical business 0 Newcastle United 1 | 14-October-2021 |
| HR Director | What can we learn from the new James Bond film about spying? Not a lot. | 13-October-2021 |
| HR Director | What next for management development? | 11-October-2021 |
| HR Director | Is there such a thing as an egoless leader? | 5-October-2021 |
| MJ | Bring on the bad news | 30-September-2021 |
| LGC | Recovery must build on trust established during pandemic | 30-September-2021 |
| HR Director | Time we all took a chill pill | 23-September-2021 |
| HR Director | Above all else , don’t forget humour | 19September-2021 |
| HR Director | What if your organisation was a car and Jeremy Clarkson was reviewing it | 15-September-2021 |
| HR Director | ABBA, back and more popular than ever | 11-September-2021 |
| HR Director | Same job, more impressive title | 7-September-2021 |
| HR Director | Managerial Kryptonite | 1-September-2021 |
| HR Director | What can we really learn from TV’s Undercover Boss | 28-August-2021 |
| HR Director | Finding the road to a more inclusive culture | 25-August-2021 |
| HR Director | What to do about underpowered management | 24-August-2021 |
| HR Director | GB’s Olympics, fewer medals but a better story | 19-August-2021 |
| LGC | Are councils institutionally corrupt | 18-August-2021 |
| MJ | An artificial business solution | 17-August-2021 |
| HR Director | Lowballing is so counter productive | 7-Augus-2021t |
| HR Director | Think assimilation think Star Trek and the Borg | 5-August-2021 |
| HR Director | Caring leader v couldn’t care leader | 4-August-2021 |
| HR Director | Ya Miao! Squeezing the second | 2-August-2021 |
| HR Director | How to manage people who present problems | 30-July-2021 |
| HR Director | Things rarely go to plan | 28-July-2021 |
| HR Director | For those who endure rather than enjoy | 22-July-2021 |
| HR Director | The art of never saying no | 21-July-2021 |
| HR Director | How a no blame culture works | 18-July-2021 |
| HR Director | Turning an organisation from just ok to very good | 16-July-2021 |
| HRD magazine | Change of routine | July-2021 |
| MJ | Losing the confidence of members | 9-July-2021 |
| HD Director | Management is a passion killer | 8-July-2021 |
| HR Director | Playing it safe does not mean taking no risks | 6-July-2021 |
| HR Director | Asking the right questions | 4-July-2021 |
| HR Director | A psychologically safe place to work | 3-July-2021 |
| HR Director | Are organisations inevitably hypocritical? | 29-June-2021 |
| HR Director | It’s not about the special one | 26-June-2021 |
| LGC | So you want to be a chief executive… | 18-June-2021 |
| HR Director | Could it really come down to jabs for jobs? | 21-June-2021 |
| HR Director | This message will self destruct | 16-June=2021 |
| HR Director | To people management, now add AI management | 16-June-2021 |
| HR Director | We don’t have to be consistently stressed and suffering burnout | 13-June-2021 |
| HR Director | Giving work purpose and meaning | 11-June-2021 |
| HR Director | How to drive up recruitment skills | 7- June-2021 |
| HR Director | Fun is great but not when somebody is hurt or humiliated | 2-June-2021 |
| HR Director | Is your business like Bruce Banner or the Hulk? | 1-June-2021 |
| HR Director | When employees live the brand | 30-May-2021 |
| HD Director | What leaders can learn from Captain James T Kirk | 28-May-2021 |
| HR Director | The parting gesture, the handover and the exit interview | 26-May-2021 |
| HR Director | How can you measure happy? | 22-May-2021 |
| HR Director | The era of integrity | 19-May-2021 |
| HR Director | Do soft machines have a future as leaders? | 18-May-2021 |
| HR Director | When the messages are misunderstood in the retelling | 17-May-2021 |
| HR Director magazine | Time to kick some asteroid | May-2021 |
| HR Director | Good leaders have nothing to hide | 14-May-2-21 |
| HD Director | Sir Alex , the greatest manager ever? | 13-May-2021 |
| HR Director | Knowing when a joke hurts | 11-May-2021 |
| HD Director | Turning HR from ditch diggers to bridge builders | 7-May-2021 |
| HD Director | Just what makes the difference? And it’s not table tennis and beer fridges | 6-May-2021 |
| HR Director | We are all responsible for returning to normal | 4-May-2021 |
| HR Director | Unconscious bias; The baby and the bath water | 4-May-2021 |
| HR Director | Why top class footballers don’t always make good managers | 1-May-2021 |
| MJ | Time is not on the side of chief executives who need to prove themselves | 28-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Whose job is it to keep the workers happy? | 27 April- 2021 |
| HR Director | If trust is so important, why is it so scarce? | 23-April-2021 |
| HD Director | European Super League .. When business isn’t just business | 22-April- 2021 |
| HR Director | Failure to tackle poor performance Iis a serious management weakness | 21-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Why’s the challenge of interim manager become even harder | 20-April-2021 |
| HR Director | The value of slow, deliberate ,incremental transformation | 20-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Spaghetti-against the wall approach to change | 14-April-2021 |
| HR Director | When fear becomes the defining principle of a leader | 14-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Now is a good time to empower employees | 13-April-2021 |
| HR Director | HR! Whose side are you on...? | 10-April-2021 |
| HD Director | HR as employee champions | 6-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Lockdown good for bosses... not so good for their staff | 6-April-2021 |
| HR Director | What can we learn from IKEA France | 4-April-2021 |
| HR Director | If training isn’t tough, it’s not doing it’s work | 3-April-2021 |
| HR Director | HR must take the lead in reimagining the organisation. | 1-April-2021 |
| HR Director | Organisations in Denial | 30-March-2021 |
| HR Director | When the boss keeps giving mixed messages | 27-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Self promotion tips over into parody | 23-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Why just enough is never enough | 22-March-2021 |
| HR Director | How a relaxed culture can make a tense atmosphere | 20-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Marginal Gains Theory | 17-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Short-tremism? There is no future in it. | 16-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Why changing your mind is a leadership quality | 13-March-2021 |
| HR Director | Inappropriate behaviour...can you handle it? | 10-March-2021 |
| HD Director | The relationship between value and reward | 9-March-2021 |
| MJ | Management melodrama dents organisational credibility | 5-March-2021 |
| HD Director | Burnout is not a sign of weakness | 4- March-2021 |
| HD Director | Numbers Ninja needed | 2-March-2021 |
| HD Director | The importance of celebrating success | 27-February-2021 |
| HR Director | Why senior managers should be facilitating focus groups | 26-February-2021 |
| HR Director | Caring about employees is in and it’s cool | 23-February-2021 |
| HR Director | Do we have ounce-back-ability? | 20-February-2021 |
| MJ | Why is central government not listening? | 16-February-2021 |
| HR Director | The way the game should be played | 12-February-2021 |
| HR Director | To defeat discrimination we have to be superheroes | 7-February-2021 |
| HR Director | It’s HR’s fault ....or is it all our faults | 6-February-2021 |
| MJ | Insiders only | 5-February-2021 |
| HD Director | Why the British workforce’s work shy reputation is unfounded | 3-February-2021 |
| HR Director | HR must go down to the shop floor to sense the mood | 24-January-2021 |
| HR Director | Balancing loyalty and ambition | 19-January-2021 |
| MJ | Be a dictator but be a nice one | 18-January-2021 |
| HR Director | How champions differ from the rest of us | 17-January-2021 |
| HR Director | The rise of the professional disruptor | 12-January-2021 |
| LGC | The most important relationship in local government | 11-January-2021 |
| HR Director | Don’t let me be misunderstood | 9-January-2021 |
| HR Director | For 2021 be a champion for equality and diversity | 5-January-2021 |
| HR Director | No more soldering on | 4-January-2021 |
| HR Director | Keep the Faith | 4-January-2021 |
| HR Director | Trial by Sherry-the perils of the corporate social event | 2-January-2021 |
| HR Director | It’s not personal it’s professional | 29-December-2020 |
| HR Director magazine | Burning on a standing platform | December-2020 |
| MJ | Officers work for members-or do they | 2-December-2020 |
| HR Director | The Business case against bullying | 30-November-2020 |
| HR Director | A small but symbolic change | 21-November-2020 |
| MJ | Sorry is the hardest word | 3-November-2020 |
| LGC | In praise of local newspapers | 31-October-2020 |
| MJ | The difficulty with hired guns | 28-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Career Butterflies | 20-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Sacked by text: Why did this headline cause such a big reaction | 15-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Misguided loyalty or fear? | 11-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Mr Nastyand Mr Nice | 8-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Respect and Fear | 7-October-2020 |
| HR Director | Sit vac... only the best need apply | 6-October-2020 |
| LGC | Rethinking questions of competence | 29-September-2020 |
| HR Director magazine | The Poor...Revolving door | September -2020 |
| MJ | Good news for the nice | 7-September-2020 |
| HR Director | Fiction better than Fact | 1-September-2020 |
| HR Director | An Uncertain Future | 27-August-2020 |
| HR Director | Boxing Cleaver-why some plans disintegrate the first serious challenge they face. | 26-August-2020 |
| LGC | Councils should not copy government on civil service changes | 10-August-2020 |
| HR Director | The moment Alf Ramsey lost the changing room | 1-August-2020 |
| MJ | To the Moon and back | 30-July-2020 |
| HR | I don’t compromise | 22-July-2020 |
| HR Director | Culture eats Strategy for breakfast | 17-July-2020 |
| MJ | We have been here before on cohesion and diversity | 16-July-2020 |
| HR Director | The characteristics of this new model leadership | 30-June-2020 |
| HR Director | Unmanaged change is just disruptive | 26-June-2020 |
| HR Director | What next for leadership? | 26-June-2020 |
| LGC | What is different about leadership in a crisis | 15-June-2020 |
| HR | Can prejudice ever be eradicated? | 12-June-2020 |
| MJ | The best managers are misfits and weirdos | 5-June-2020 |
| HR Director | More than just a soft machine | 22-May-2020 |
| HR Director | Don’t let emerging talent turn stale | 10-May-2020 |
| MJ | It’s all part of the myth | 7-May-2020 |
| MJ | Is it too early to discuss the exit strategy and local recovery plan | 7-April-202- |
| LGC | Chief executives should learn from Philip Rutnam’s stance | 3-March-2020 |
| MJ | Who you gonna call | 10-February-2020 |
| MJ | Take a chance on me -the recruitment lottery | 10-January-2020 |
| MJ | Just very good at what they do | 5-December-19 |
| LGC | Innovative ideas threatened if put under scrutiny too early | 4-December-19 |
| MJ | The absence of the human touch | 25-Nov-19 |
| MJ | Who’s in Charge | 21-October-19 |
| MJ | Who are you talking to? | 7-October-19 |
| MJ | The answer to the leadership question | 17-September-19 |
| LGC | Don’t hide the fact that you have a life outside the office | 22-August-19 |
| MJ | All managers have to anticipate | 16-August-19 |
| HSJ | Can care integration cure “shitty” life syndrome? | 15-August-19 |
| LGC | The recruitment process reveals much about a council | 26-July-19 |
| MJ | Throw the officers under the bus | 16-July-19 |
| MJ | A bad influence | 9-July-19 |
| LGC | There's a danger austerity has pushed generic management too far | 26-June-19 |
| MJ | Do no evil | 14-May-19 |
| HR Director | How to make people feel included | 8-May-19 |
| LGC | Improvement partnership s can hinder too | 23-April-19 |
| MJ | What a good manager looks like | 23-April-19 |
| HR Director | Artificial Intelligence signals the arrival of Big Brother | 13-April-19 |
| LGC | The unorthodox stage of senior management recruiting | 29-March-19 |
| MJ | In space no one can hear you laugh | 26-March-19 |
| HR Director | The Righteous Manager | 9-March-19 |
| MJ | The £ million question is. How corporate are you? | 21 February-19 |
| LGC | A failing service tests if we are all in it together | 12-February-19 |
| MJ | Better Times | 29-January-19 |
| MJ | Who will protect us from the bullies? | 8-January-19 |
| LGC | How councils recruit reveals a great deal | 7-January-19 |
| MJ | Rebel, Rebel | 17-December-18 |
| LCC | Are boardroom skills transferable to local government | 13-December-18 |
| LGC | Councils should protect staff from themselves | 15-Nov-18 |
| MJ | Opinions are essential for senior managers | 19-October-18 |
| LGC | Is it ever legitimate for council officers to thwart political will? | 19-September-18 |
| MJ | Social work is a special case | 14-September-18 |
| Community Care | Dropping the ball-social workers are like goal keepers | 5-September-18 |
| LGC | We must find the real story in service failure | 20-August -18 |
| MJ | Are council chiefs much different from football managers? | 17-August-18 |
| MJ | Children’s services risk management is a leap of faith | 30-July -18 |
| The HR director | You at work and you at home | 3-August-18 |
| LGC | Councils may have taken the corporate mindset too far | 1- August-18 |
| Professional Social work BASW | In the not to distant future | July/August |
| MJ | Can you be a top director | 18-July-18 |
| LGC | The point of a leader standing athwart change | 17-July-18 |
| LGC | How directors can really help social workers | 6-July-18 |
| The HR director | Diversity- great expectation | 5-July-18 |
| MJ | MPs are quick to criticise and slow to praise | 25-April-18 |
| LGC | Collaboration isn’t new, and nor are it’s challenges | 4-May-18 |
| The HR director | Why do leaders pick a fight | 22-April-18 |
| MJ | Big data and Water Carriers | 29-March-18 |
| The HR Director | HR softening the blow or stiffening managers resolve? | 24-March-18 |
| LGC | Recruiters should study resilience not just success | 14-March-18 |
| MJ | Be prepared when you enter the den | 20-Feb-18 |
| Guardian | Setting council budgets is a messy series of unattractive compromises | 14-Feb-18 |
| MJ | Senior managers need to be made to feel uncomfortable sometimes | 13-Feb-18 |
| The. HR director | Top tips on dealing with conflict at work | 12-Feb-18 |
| The HR director | How should HR handle suspected racism | 11-Feb-18 |
| The HR director | When managers get caught in the cross fire | 11-Feb-18 |
| LGC | Austerity has encouraged autocratic leadership | 9-Jan-18 |
| The HR director | Popular culture is ahead of office culture | 28-Dec-17 |
| MJ | Taking control of your interview | 5-Dec-17 |
| The HR director | Making HR more interesting | 27-Nov-17 |
| The HR director | The Perils of Porn | 16-Nov-17 |
| The HR director | When racism is subtle and devious | 7-Nov-17 |
| LGC | How to handle a leader with a business background | 3-Nov-17 |
| LGC | Don't delude your self about your management style | 7-Sept-17 |
| MJ | Where does the buck stop | 28-June-17 |
| LGC | How to maintain good leadership after a long absence | 28-June-17 |
| MJ | How is your resilience | 18-May-17 |
| Community care | What I leant from recruiting social workers | 19-April-17 |
| Knowledge Hub | Local Authority awkward squad | 26-March-17 |
| Mj | The Government must recognise the value of social workers | 22-March-17 |
| MJ | It's all about the chemistry | 15-Feburary - 17 |
| MJ | Punching for promotion | 10-November-16 |
| MJ | In whose best intrest? | 1-November-16 |
| MJ | That's why they call them senior managers | 14-October-16 |
| MJ | Second career for public sector managers | 15-August-16 |
| MJ | When should a chief go? | 28-July-16 |
| MJ | Time to wise up to reality | 30 June-16 |
| Human Resource Management | Agile Adaptive leaders | June |
| MJ | what would Guy Goma have done | 15-June-16 |
| MJ | Frying pan into fire | 2-June-16 |
| knowledge Hub | The Johan Cruyff method | 28-March-16 |
| knowledge Hub | Is this leadership or bullying | 22-March-16 |
| MJ | When Harry met Sally | 22-March-16 |
| MJ | A step backwards to go forwards | 10-February-16 |
| Community Care | Should there be a limit to what front line social workers face | 23-February-16 |
| Community Care | There has never been a gerater need for senior managers with strong social work values | 25-January-16 |
| Community Care | We don't need turnaround kings | 7-January-16 |
| MJ | Send in the bailiffs | 14-January-16 |
| managent matters blog | The Special Ones | 22-December-15 |
| MJ | A message to you | 22-December-15 |
| Community Care | When did social workers become afraid to be awkward | 22-November-15 |
| knowledge Hub | Unlikely things for senior managers to say | 12-October-15 |
| knowledge Hub | Is it fair No but don't blame the inspectors | 7-October-15 |
| knowledge Hub | Square pegs in round holes | 5-October-15 |
| MJ | Learning from Chicago | 16-October-15 |
| health Service Blog | Its a funny old game | 28-September-15 |
| health Service Blog | 12 v 6 | 22-September-15 |
| health Service Blog | Alright duck | 21-September-15 |
| health Service Blog | Open Honest and Transparent | 15-September-15 |
| health Service Blog | Five myths about the austerity diet | 2-September-15 |
| Human Resource Management International Diggest | Dont give up on the no-hopers- Reverse talent spotting | September -15 |
| Community Care | Are social workers still the good guys | 8-September-15 |
| OSIRIS | Leadership | 9-September-15 |
| health Service Blog | Change Fatigue | 27-August-15 |
| health Service Blog | The Amerzon Jungle | 23-August-15 |
| health Service Blog | Same circus different clowns | 10-August-15 |
| health Service Blog | He only rings when he needs a fix | 3-August-15 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Just like True Detective | 28-July-15 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Why doctors don't make good managers | 21-July-15 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | How the game is played | 17-July-15 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | To kill a Mocking bird | 13-July-15 |
| Community Care | Disputes between social workers and cuts in HR | 30-July-15 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Hard work, snitching or pot luck how I became a council Director | 15-July-15 |
| Community Care | Why it is hard to separate the shirkers from the workers | 23-June-15 |
| Community Care | Taking a naval approach to culture | 5-June-15 |
| Nursing Times | Staff stratergies must focus on reinvigorating existing staff | 26-June-15 |
| Community Care | My boss is incompetent and lazy | 19-May-15 |
| Community Care | If coffee shop staff can be trusted with their companies money why not social workers | 5-May-15 |
| Community Care | Why the decline of social service policy officers has been bad news for social work | 28-April-15 |
| Community Care | How ideology is widdening the gulf between social workers and managers | 16-April-15 |
| Community Care | Health and social care have clients in common but not cultures | 9-April--15 |
| Community Care | From Radical social worker to responsible manager | 24-March-15 |
| MJ | The public sectors dirty secret | 3-March-15 |
| MJ | C is for Commissioning, Contracting and Corruption | 26-February-15 |
| Community Care | Lack of services and support for individuals with early onset dementia | 23-February-15 |
| Community Care | When does family overprotectivness tip into psychological abuse | 10- February-15 |
| MJ | Time to move on | 22-January-15 |
| Community Care | Social care leaders must show more passion in defending services against government cuts | 13-January-15 |
| MJ | Unreliable witness | 8-January-15 |
| Community Care | why a management speach is like the toughest stand up gig | 16-December-14 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | When the rubbish goes uincollected | 10-December-14 |
| MJ | Let\'s work together. Let\'s not... | 4-December-14 |
| MJ | The gloves are on | 20-November -14 |
| Health Service Journal | You cant inspect your way out of trouble | 24-November-14 |
| Community Care | Agency social workers | 21-November-14 |
| Community Care | The good proffessional | 4-November-14 |
| MJ | When things go bad | 24-October-14 |
| Community Care | Glass slipper recruitment | 24-October-14 |
| The Guardian | The politics of persuasion | 7-October-14 |
| Community Care | Don\'t let politicans scapegoat socialworkers | 9-October-14 |
| Health Service Journal | Active unions are good for public sector managers | 13-October-14 |
| Community Care | The most common characteristic of people who die in fires | 22-September-14 |
| Community Care | We need a whistleblowing system that staff have confidence in | 4-September-14 |
| Community Care | The danger of \" tell me what I want to hear\" culture in social services | 26-August-14 |
| Health Service Journal | From Face Book to the NHS poor communication is rife | 8-August-14 |
| Health Service Journal | The public sector should not be scared to make mistakes | 7-August-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | Hypocracy and senior management | 5-August-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | The retail model in the public sector | 1-August-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | Why this obsession with leadership | 29-July-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | What happend to Community Cohesion | 24-July-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | the gap between the flash and the bang | 19-July-14 |
| Community Care | I am witnesing the dismanteling of the social care system I spent my career building | 7-July-14 |
| Community Care | Don\'t be too cynical about senior managers | 29-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Private good public bad not for profit better | 18-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Copying failure and hoping it works | 17-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | In search of Valhala | 14-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Even the best teams need a star player | 11-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The NHS too big to fail in Election year | 8-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is your mental health policy bad for business | 7-July-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Whether its football or the NHS evryone is an expert | 23-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The language of winers and losers | 19-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | One word inspection visits don\'t help | 16-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Will it be happy ever after for the NHS | 13-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Beds too hard,food cold, nothing is just right | 11-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Who would admit to being a raceist | 11-June-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Some pionters for NHS equality and diversity council | 2-June-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | The man in the white suit | 22-May-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | Positive discrimination -will it mean incompetant people are appionted | 22-May-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | The changing officer member relationship | 20-May-14 |
| Knowledge Hub | Pushed off the glass cliff | 19-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | A change is as good as an arrest | 30-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Can a leader be too good at their job | 21-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Stirring up the multicultural melting pot | 13-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Better Care Fund fiasco | 9-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Yes- to all black short lists for senior posts | 6-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The truth is stranger than fiction | 1-May-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Better a poor service than no service | 25-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | It is sometimes best not to follow the leader | 24-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | You need more than a change in the law to improve care | 17-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The politics of language | 14-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | I don\'t want to be a consumer I am happy to be a patient | 9-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | New boss to navigate us through the next few years | 8-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | In the NHS you need political skills to survive | 1-April-14 |
| Community Care | All to often dementia in old age leads to proffessions disreguarding human rights | 28-April-14 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | How to manage services you know nothing about | 28-April-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The NHS should resist the American way | 25-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Florida The future of old peoples care | 24-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Middle managers need to stir it up | 14-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | What happend to the battle against instituionalisation | 12-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | lLove over fear in absence management | 6-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | You can\'t run Trusts like football clubs | 4-March-14 |
| Community Care | Faceing the challange about being open as a carer | 10-March-14 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | How can public leaders leave a legacy | 17-March-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | There was no golden era to be a public sector worker | 25-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Life on the frontline is tough whereever you work | 24-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Update the unwritten rules of workplace behaviour | 19-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Stop looking for a quick fix from the private sector | 14-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Board room battles take place in the shaddows | 11-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The blured lines around who you can appiont | 7-February-14 |
| Community Care | Why social workers should care about growth in harmfull drinking amongst older people | 24-February-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The Blue Badge Test-When the directors job becomes impossible | 31-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Wanted business people to save the NHS | 28-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Do we expect higher morale standards from our leaders | 27-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Cutomer care is such a drag | 24-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The dilema of a tough management decsion | 15-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | New year time to get a new job | 13-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | From flower power to Facebook | 10-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Why Sherlock could never make it as an NHS manager | 7-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Politicans want to slay the beast that never was | 6-Jan-14 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Longer life expectancy may be too much of a good thing | 3-Jan-14 |
| Inside Housing | As austerity bits HA board members must rise to the challange | 31-Jan-14 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Ten tips to make your boss a better leader | 15-Jan-14 |
| mj | Selfish ,shortsighted and old | 27-December-13 |
| MJ | Going to the pub at lunch time | 12-December-13 |
| MJ | Simple test of corporate culture | 2-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Bring back awards to reward quality | 30-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Will 2014 be the tear of ethical leadership | 19-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | We didn\'t need all those staff after all | 16-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The drive for equality and diversity in the NHS | 6-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | In business there are no ideal partners | 6-December-13 |
| Community Care | Should a violent criminal record automatically bar you from working with young people and vulnerable adults | 20-December-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Halloween is over stop the whitch hunt | 8-November-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Change the delay,deny,defend culture | 7-November-12 |
| MJ | labrador or Rottweiler | 25-November-13 |
| MJ | Man of the people | 21-November-13 |
| MJ | Just doing enough | 20-November-13 |
| MJ | Jump the shark | 18-November-13 |
| MJ | Don\'t be a cookie cutter leader | 13-November-13 |
| MJ | Transferable skills and shock of the new | 11-November-13 |
| MJ | Smackdown | 8-November-13 |
| MJ | To build you must first demolish | 5-November-13 |
| MJ | Difficult time for managers | 1-November-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Man management is a funny old game | 30-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Hunts care plane puts burden on family before state | 21-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Managers- always look on the bright side | 21-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Are hospital chairs over reaching their roles | 18-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | No one can provide quality care in 15 minutes | 15-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | I don\'t need to go to hospital | 9-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Dont unnecessarily annoy the patients | 4-Ocober-13 |
| Local Government Association | Educating Yorkshire | 28-October-13 |
| Local Government Association | Always look on the bright side | 17-October-13 |
| Local Government Association | Exit PA\'s from LA\'s | 14-October-13 |
| Local Government Association | Birthday lunch with the chief executive | 11-October-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | You dont want to know the answer | 27-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Trusts dont expect cheief executives to hang around | 26-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Lokk beyound the supermarket model for health services | 25-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Families shouldnt have to do a hospitals job | 17-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Career advice be opinonated, abrasive and intolerant | 10-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Leadership is about taking responsibility | 9-September-13 |
| The Guardian | Strictly Whitehall | 30-September-13 |
| Inside Housing | HR issues expert opinion | 6-September-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Only in America | 27-August-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Leadership balanacing act | 19-August -13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Lead from the front and from behind the sceens | 15-August-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | No blame the NHS gain | 9-August-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Stress, strokes and Robin Hood | 7-August-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | What can we learn from the CQC cover up story | 2-August-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | There will always be staff who feel bullied | 29-July-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Tackling inequality the forgotten priority | 25-July-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Special Measures are a stick to beat trusts with | 17-July-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The differance between a board and a cabinet | 11-July-13 |
| Health Service Journal | We\'re missing the signs of alcohol abuse among older people | 9-JULY-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Lights camerainaction | 5-JULY-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | My own experiance of a report cover up | 5-JULY-13 |
| Community Care | when Directors need to take a more hands on approach | 8-July-13 |
| Public Servant | Is bullying sometimes just tough management | 29-July -13 |
| Public Servant | You look like trouble | 23-July-13 |
| Public Servant | Services under special measures | 19-July-13 |
| Public Servant | We need positive policing not positive decrimination | 15-JULY-13 |
| Public Servant | Redesigning for austerity | 3-July-13 |
| Public Servant | The Hodge dodge and the Hammersmith and Fulham manoeuver | 1-July-13 |
| Community Care | Floor to ceiling porn | 31-May-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Can clinicIans make good managers | 18-June-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Are the best leaders special ones | 11-June-13 |
| Public Servant | Is removing potentially damaging info from a report always a cover up | 24-June-13 |
| Public Servant | Redundant manager seeks rewarding post | 17-June-13 |
| Public Servant | We dont need irresponsible leadership | 3-June -13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is iot that good to talk | 30-May-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Data should inform commissioning decisions | 22-May-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The power of the HSJ blog | 17-May-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Challanging the myth of intergrated care | 15-May-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The problem with superfical inspections | 8-May-13 |
| Public Servant | Here comes the consolidator | 23-May-13 |
| Public Servant | Win, lose or draw | 10-May-13 |
| Community Care | Its all to easy to blame care providers for low pay | 26 -April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Cut the news speak out of redundacy announcements | 29-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Could the Rooney Rule work in the public sector | 22-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Commercial Catch 22 | 17-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Mid Staffs Foundation Trust can go bust | 16-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Not sleeping your way to the top | 16-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Senior management was incompetent and reckless | 10-April-13 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | A rising management star crashes and burns | 3-April-13 |
| Public Servant | What happens when you subtract admin | 29-April-13 |
| Public Servant | We must commission for equality because we are not all the same | 25-April-13 |
| Public Servant | The Devil is in the detail the complexity of commissioning for outcomes | 25-April-13 |
| Public Servant | What\'s it like when the private sector take over | 22-April-13 |
| Public Servant | Stay in touch with your staff | 25 April |
| Community Care | The rise of badly behaved managers | 25-February-13 |
| Knowledge Hub | Managerialism | 22-March-13 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Off with their heads. Don\'t blame managers just because they are in charge | 28-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | High level anger management | 27-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | The power of the political placebo | 25=March=13 |
| Health Service Journal | If the shark doesn\'t get you HR will | 18-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Patients v Business case | 11-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | A Shakspearian story at the top of the NHS | 6-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Interim NHS managers can relate to Rafael Benitez | 5-March-13 |
| Public Servant | Council\'s bin survey ask\'s \"Are you gay?\" | 24- March-13 |
| Public Servant | Slimming diet proves unpalatable | 21-March-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Passion runneth over in the job search | 28-February-13 |
| Health Service Journal | The NHS should aim higher than \"don\'t be evil\" | 20-February-13 |
| Health Service Journal | An NHS love story | 14-February-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Clearing up the confusion on commissioning | 11-February-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Francis will likely say parts of theNHS aren\'t good with people | 4-February-13 |
| Public Servant | Changing the banking culture | 25-February-13 |
| Public Servant | More management less leadership | 18-February-13 |
| Public Servant | Take it in turns leadership | 11-February-13 |
| Public Servant | \"Careless\" doesn\'t begin to cover it | 11-February-13 |
| Public Servant | Equality in the Public sector-a gigantic backward step? | 4-February-13 |
| Knowledge Hub | Smarter and Harder is for Dummies | 28-January-13 |
| Knowledge Hub | Lessons in leadership from a master of disaster | 24-January-13 |
| Public Servant | Want to be a good manager then drop the metaphors | 14-January-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Is it harder to be an honest senior manager in todays NHS | 21-January-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Money can\'t buy an all star team | 29-January-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Leadership lessons from the thine white Duke | 14-January-13 |
| Health Service Journal | Military style leadership doesn\'t suit the public sector | 7-January-13 |
| Health Service Journal | A new look for health service leaders | 2-January-13 |
| Public Servant | Are you in a power league of part timers | 28-January-13 |
| Public Servant | Why the public sector should aviod head hunters | 21-January-13 |
| Public Servant | Which leadership style is best for public sector | 4-January-13 |
| Community Care | Fed up of cuts and pay freezes-why not stop smiling? | 17-December-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Why the public sector shouldn\'t use head hunters | 28-December-12 |
| Health Service Journal | The drama of being a whistle blower | 6-December-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Concern that black staff are more likely to be discipined | 4-December-12 |
| Public Servant | Whistleblowers and genda quotas | 3-December-12 |
| MJ | Impersonating a manager | 3-December-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Whats so hard about saying sorry? | 21-November-12 |
| Public Servant | Why M is for Mother | 19-November-12 |
| Public Servant | Should we get rid of the Chief Exec | 12-November-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Protecting the NHS brand or devaluing it | 15-November-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Stairlift on cell block H | 12-November-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Better to seek forgiveness than ask permission | 7-November-12 |
| Public Servant | It\'s the medium not the message | 5-November-12 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Civil Service- Does the boss still know what is best | 19-October-12 |
| Public Servant | There is real value in maintaining the union | 31-Ocober-12 |
| Public Servant | Steady Eddie v Flash Harry in the promotion game | 29-October-12 |
| Public Servant | Can you pay less and still attract the best | 21-October-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Winterbourn View was shocking but hardly surprising | 31-October-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Harassment has not gon away | 19-October-12 |
| Health Service Journal | The schocking truth about anonymous comments | 12-October-12 |
| Public Servant | No end insight to high stress and low morale | 1-October-12 |
| Knowledge Hub | Champions | 4-October-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Culture is as intangible as the air we breath | 8-October-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Equal oppertunities under the new CCGs | 2-October-12 |
| Public Servant | Making a difference - a little bit here,a little bit there.. | October-12 |
| Community Care | Cutting non essential services | 28-September-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Stampede for the exit | 26-September-12 |
| Public Servant | How much are you worth? | 24-September-12 |
| Public Servant | Smells like team spirit | 17-September-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Did she jump or was she pushed? | 19-September-12 |
| Health Service Journal | How to be successful at interview | 11-September-12 |
| Health Service Journal | UnLearning leadership in the NHS | 4-September-12 |
| Public Servant | Lazy,incompetent and over paid | 10 -September-12 |
| Public Servant | Male and Pale? may be ministers are to blame | September-12 |
| Community Care | Social work is losing influence when we need it most | 31-August-12 |
| Public Servant | Equal Oppertunites? One thing at a time | 28-August-12 |
| Public Servant | And the gold medal for bureaucracy goes to..... | 21-August-12 |
| Public Servant | Economies of scale contribute to abuse | 13-August-12 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Going for gold | 10-August-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | 5o shades of management | 9-August-12 |
| Public Servant | The office mutiny and how to manage it | 6-August-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is trust really the be all and end all of leading? | 20-July-12 |
| Public Servant | Few racists but a lot of racism | 16-July-12 |
| Public Servant | Do you need front line experiance of a service to lead it | 26-July-12 |
| Public Servant | The sedating of disruptive patients | 19-July-12 |
| Public Servant | Can we ever stop children running away | 5-July-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Death in a hostel | 25-June-12 |
| Public Servant | No one likes a snitch | 12-June-12 |
| Public Servant | People suffer as local authorites do the right thing | 18-June-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Who cares what they think | 12-June-12 |
| Public Servant | Care homes for the poor | 11-June-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Hire and Fire at will | 4-June-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Playing to the whistle | 28-May-12 |
| Knowledge Hub | Bounce-back ability | 11-May-12 |
| Public Servant | The NHS needs more cuddly leaders | 28-May-12 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | The problem of presenteeism | 24-May-12 |
| Public Servant | Why don\'t we do what works? | 14-May-12 |
| Public Servant | Is this a Lean organisation or a skinny one? | 21-May-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The fall of the Roman Empire | 18-May-12 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Thre is a big gap between mangers self image and how others see them | 9-May-12 |
| Public Servant | Is a job in the car industry worth more than one in the care industry? | 21-May-12 |
| Public Servant | Too many managers think they are perfect | 3-May-12 |
| Public Servant | It may be cheaper but is it any better? | May-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Sent home in the early hours | 27-April-12 |
| Public Servant | Why do bad things happen in care homes? | 26-April-12 |
| Community Care | Say hello to the 9 to 5 manager | 18-April-11 |
| Public Servant | Teachers get bullied to | 11-April-12 |
| Public Servant | Institutional Racism-the hidden problem | 10-April-12 |
| MJ | Suckers and rip off merchants | 27-March-12 |
| MJ | The end of tribalism in Local Government? | 11-March-12 |
| MJ | Ours is not to reason why | 21-March-12 |
| Public Servant | Why won\'t social workers tell people what they do | 22-March-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Collaboration with the private sector a necessary evil | 4 -March-12 |
| Public Servant | Why is staffing in the public sector still not fair and equal? | 19-March-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Yes we do talk about you | 13-March-12 |
| Public Servant | Which type of manager are you | 12-March-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | In NHS board games,no one is safe | 24-February-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is there an i in success-busting the team building myth | 17-February-12 |
| The Guardian | management clinic-catching the ear of the boss | 21-February-12 |
| Public Servant | How to win that grant | 8-February-12 |
| Public Servant | Is it the size of bonuses that offends so much? | 15-February-12 |
| The MJ blog | This is what we did on our away day | 13-February-12 |
| Public Servant | The NHS is not a business and should not be run like one | 9-February-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is it alright for a man to wear black eyeliner to work? | 6-Febuary-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Are managers to busy to manage? | 6-Febuary-12 |
| Public Servant | The Right Questions | Febuary-12 |
| The MJ blog | Management consultants can we still afford them do we still need them? | 27-January-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Are leaders a product of thier environment or is it the other wat round? | 25-January-12 |
| Public Servant | manageing gay men -is it different? | 31-January-12 |
| The MJ blog | If staff staff morale is at an all time low you know you are doing something right | 25-January-12 |
| The MJ blog | There are many ways to get rid of a Director | 24 -January-12 |
| The MJ | Should we be cutting so many top jobs? | 24 -January-12 |
| The MJ blog | 2012 the year of UnLearing management | 15-January-12 |
| The MJ | Chief execs v Elected Mayors | 11-January-12 |
| The MJ blog | miss congeniality | 13-January-12 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Profit and loss in the new public sector | 17-January-12 |
| Health Service Journal | Don\'t presume racism is nolonger a problem | 10-January-12 |
| Community Care | Intergration of Health and Social care is outdated and unnecessary | 9-January-12 |
| Public Servant | Worth their weight in gold? | January-12 |
| Public Servant | Can you make a racist remark and not be a racist? | 22-December-11 |
| Public Servant | When public servants are out of their depth | 16-December-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is community care as we know it dead? | 6-December-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | When is a whistleblower not a whistle blower? | 5-December -11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The strikes don\'t mean staff don\'t like doing their job | 2-December-11 |
| Guardian Social Care network | Setting the boundaries in social work | 2-December-11 |
| Public Servant | How to maintain morale when the future is so bleak | 1-December-11 |
| Public Servant | Community care is dead | 24-November-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Whose finger prints are on the back stabbing knife? | 21-November-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Customer care alone is not enough | 21-November-11 |
| Public Servant | Getting closer or too close | 23-November-11 |
| Community Care | Social work boundaries how times have changed | 23-November-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Macho macho management | 10-November-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Dancing with the Devil? Exorcism in the NHS | 2-November-11 |
| Public Servant | What makes people think private sector management is better? | 11-November-11 |
| Public Servant | Helping patients by casting out their demons | 3-November-11 |
| Public Servant | Why can\'t Health and social services get it together? | 3-November-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Why can\'t Health and social services get it together? | 31-October-11 |
| Public Servant | How much longer will my flu jab be free | 27-October-11 |
| Public Servant | Culture beats strategy every time | 24-October-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | In the drive for equality culture eats strategy for breakfast | 21-October-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | It\'s time to talk about values | 13-October-11 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Why the NHS will struggle to attract commisioning high flyers | 13-October-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is the Public sector running out of ideas? | 13-October-11 |
| Community Care | Why the Godfather is the latest inspiration for Public sector managers | 30-September-11 |
| Public Servant | who says bullying dosen\'t bother NHS staff | 29-September-11 |
| Public Servant | Should a struck off nurse be allowed to care for patients? | 23-September-11 |
| Public Servant | Pass the human parcel | 27-September-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Say no to \"Yes\" men and women | 22-September-11 |
| Community Care | Dale Farm and why we must learn to engage with Gypsies and Travellers | 19-September-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | leaders lack confidence to make changes they\'ve been asked to make | 10-September-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Apple of the eye-why leaders should never be seen as in dispensible | 5-September-11 |
| Public Servant | Romany gypsies and Irish Travellers nightmare neighbours or persecuted minority | 8-September-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Don\'t make me think | 1-September-11 |
| Public Servant | It\'s a risky business | September-11 |
| Public Servant | How many chief executives are truly indispensable? | 31-August-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Leadreship, not as dangerous as some might make out | 21-August-11 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Low morale in the public sector not just about job losses | 22-August-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | If bullying doesn\'t bother staff why are so many absent? | 18-August-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Trying to force Equality | 11-August-11 |
| Public Servant | Leadership is not dangerous | 8-August-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | What happens when pleaseing the boss goes too far? | 5-August-11 |
| Public Servant | Pensioners in Prision.. who cares? | 4-August-11 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | How did your boss get to the top? | 28-July-11 |
| Public Servant | It is only fair that all leave is cancelled-except for senior managers | 26-July-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Changing behaviour needs more than a \"nudge\" | 25-July-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is your organisation accepting the unacceptable? | 21-july-11 |
| Public Servant | They call it Ethical Fading | 21-July-11 |
| Community Care | Sorry guys, your annual leave is cancelled,a cuationary socialwork tale | 15-July-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The difference between what is said and what is ment | 7-July-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Beyond samosas and reggae | 7-July-11 |
| Public Servant | Get set to develop your managers | July-11 |
| Public Servant | Leadership skills for those who aspire to lead | July-11 |
| Public Servant | They would say that wouldn\'t they | 24-June-11 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Partnerships how much team work does happen in the Public Sector? | 20-June-11 |
| Public Servant | Improving care the Britans Got Talent way | 15-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | What happens when chief executives are slow to pick up on patient complaints | 10-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Can Local Authorites step up as good providers of care? | 9-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal | Senior managers need to get hands on with customers | 8-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Life after senior management;it is not over for the over 50\'s | 6-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The end of the start of Personalisation in adult social care | 4-June-11 |
| Community Care | Personalisation was over sold time to scale it back | 3-June-11 |
| Public Servant | Too old to rock and roll | 1-June-11 |
| Public Servant | Do you know what\'s going on | 1-June-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Th never asked question\"What if I am wrong?\" | 27-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Collective failures can hinder social care | 26-May-11 |
| Public Servant | Hate Crimes | 26-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Undermanaged NHS needs step change | 24-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The culture shift required to achieve equality in the work place | 22-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Heroes and villans | 19-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Powers of the dynamic duo | 19-May-11 |
| Public Servant | Race and identity | 18-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Fair,cheap and intimidating - the future of NHS services? | 10-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Make \'em laugh | 10-May-11 |
| Guardian Public Leaders Network | Praise for local government deputies | 9-May-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Making time for successful management development | 3-May-11 |
| Public Servant | There\'s no easy way to say this | May-2011 |
| Guardian Professional | Mentoring is a way of developing leadership skills | 29-April-11 |
| Public Servant | Why most management development programmes fail | 27-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The casualties of workplace conflict aren\'t just the staff | 21-April-11 |
| Community Care | It\'s time to stand up for social work middle managers | 21-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Graduates need more than a degree from the University of life | 20-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Getting the message accross | 20-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Stuck in the midddle | 18-April-11 |
| Public Servant | Eric is gunning for you | 18-April-11 |
| Public Servant | No surprise that workplace conflict is on the incrase | 15-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Learning the management lingo | 7-April-11 |
| Community Care | The surgeon who refused to operate | 4-April-11 |
| Public Servant blog | The American version | 4-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | When looking the part goes too far | 1-April-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Need an ambulance?Call the fire brigade. | 30-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Lobster on the menu | 28-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Sometimes the best thing to happen to a candidate is not to get the job | 28-March-11 |
| Public Servant | High heels and low journalism | 25-March-11 |
| Public Servant | Can a Local Authority go bust? | 24-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Charm might not be on the jod description | 23-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | How to win praise and influence people | 16-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Replacing the irreplaceable | 15-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Head hunters, beauty parades and trial by sherry | 9-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Taking the fight to bullies in the work place | 7-March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Poor elderly care is more tham circumstantial | 4-March-11 |
| Public Servant | Fishing in a wider pool | March-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Living on pizza saved my life | 28- February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Are there any leaders who don\'t do U turns | 24-February-11 |
| Guardian Professional | A dramatic public sector management cull | 24-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | The blame game won\'t halt elderly care failings | 23-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Hospital food is a recipe of contrary ingredients | 20-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Taking action against work place discrimination | 18-February-11 |
| Public Servant | Big Society strangled ar birth | 17-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Why didn\'t I get the job? | 16-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Voluntary groups shouldn\'t take funding for granted | 14-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Your\'re going home-improving the interview proccess | 10-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Plan B or not plan B | 10-February-11 |
| Inside Housing | Has equality gon as far as it can? | 10-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | There\'s something fishy about all this change | 7-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | We will let you know by the weekend | 4-February-11 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Equipping managers for an uncertain future | 2-February-11 |
| Public Servant | Partnerships under fire | February-2011 |
| Public Servant | The Tough Question For Leaders | February-2011 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | She looked like she was on a big ride at Alton Towers | 30-January-11 |
| Guardian Public | How many chief executives are truly indispensable? | 25-January-11 |
| Community Care | Pensioner crime wave can no longer be ignored | 14-January-11 |
| Public Servant | Where is the incentive in the public sector? | 12-January-11 |
| Guardian Public | Would I lie to you? | 11-January-11 |
| Public Servant | Should I stay or should I go? | 29-December-10 |
| Public Servant | Monkey business at council zoo | 14-December-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Is the answer to have more black senior managers? | 2-December-10 |
| Public Servant | It\'s cold out side | 8-December-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Book of the Dead | 7-December-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | is cost cutting turning managers into bullies? | 4-December-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Business people with medical degrees | 30-November-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Undercover Boss | 28-November-10 |
| MJ | Public sector managers feel ill-equipped | 18-November -10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Hospitals strike back over social care cuts | 21-November-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Making savings through sackings-but who goes? | 21-November-10 |
| Public Servant | How to manage the silent killer in thes tough times | 5-November-10 |
| Public Servant | The Real Time Bomb | November-10 |
| Community Care | You\'ll miss social care when it\'s gone | 29-October-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Gypsies and Travellers are the most disadvantaged minority with in our society | 20-October-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | It won\'t be lack of money that does for the public sector | 19-Oct-10 |
| Public Servant blog | Fairness...what is that exactly? | 12-October-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | So what\'s wrong with wearing a dress to work? | 11-October-10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | How to fail with out really trying | 8-October -10 |
| Health Service Journal Blog | Managers need more than a short course to lead a divers workforce | 5-October -10 |
| Public Servant | What price exclusion? | October 2010 |
| Public Servant | How does a manager deal with\"bone idle\" staff? | 15-September-10 |
| Public Servant | It\'s not such a big deal getting the sack | 10-September-10 |
| Community Care | Do you need to be a qualified social worker to be a good social work manager? | 1-September-10 |
| Public Servant | Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye | September-10 |
| Public Servant | So what does make a good Public Sector manager? | 20-August-10 |
| MJ | Men make better managers | 19-August-10 |
| Public Servant | A safe place to speak out | August-10 |
| Public Servant blog | Senior managers are right to be worried | 30-July-10 |
| Guardian Public | Public managers: your sector needs you | 22-July-10 |
| Public Servant | Public sector managers arn\'t up to the job | 20- July-10 |
| MJ | Who must we keep and who can we lose? | 11-March 10 |
| Public Servant | Why it is so hard tofire an incompetent public servant | 9-July-10 |
| Inside Housing | Aviod the blame game | 2-July-10 |
| Public Servant blog | England management in tatters | 1-July-10 |
| Guardian Public | Mutiny in the work place | 25-June-10 |
| MJ | Is it worth the hassel? | 23-June-10 |
| Guardian Public | How to cope with stress-before it\'s too late | 10-June-10 |
| Public Servant blog | Wyh are high flyers always available to start work immeadiatly? | 2-June-10 |
| Public Servant | Treading carefully or treading on toes | June-10 |
| Guardian Public | Permission to speak my mind | 28-May-10 |
| Public Servant | A good manager should challange and be challanged | 27-May-10 |
| Public Servant blog | Look out for snakes | 24-May-10 |
| Guardian Public | Why getting the sack is not such a big deal | 10-May-10 |
| Public Servant | Why is working in the public sector seen as a cushy number? | 10-May-10 |
| Guardian Public | A good ending | 30-Apr-10 |
| Public Servant | Why is there a bonus culture in the public sector? | 27-Apr-10 |
| Public Servant | Should your manager have been given the job? | 21-Apr-10 |
| Public Servant | Disability hate crime | 22-Mar-10 |
| Public Servant | How can managers handle a diverse workforce? | 08-Feb-10 |
| Guardian Public | Public sector managers: It's not all bad | 04-Feb-10 |
| Public Servant | What can we learn from vampires | 03-Feb-10 |
| Guardian Public | All managers are leaders | 11-Jan-10 |
| Public Servant | Fire your worst customers? Get real. | 04-Dec-09 |
| Public Servant | Can you really do more with less? | 09-Nov-09 |
| Inside Housing | Love them or Hate them | 06-Nov-09 |
| Public Servant | Elections bring change but also naive politicians | 16-Oct-09 |
| Public Servant | Can Public sector managers cope with cut backs | 12-Oct-09 |
| Municipal Journal | People management in a harsh financial climate | 08-Oct-09 |
| Inside Housing | Teaching Equality | 02-Oct-09 |
| Public Service Review Health issue 21 | End the bullying | Autumn 2009 |
| Public Servant | So just how close should managers get to their staff? | 17-Sep-09 |
| Public Servant | Public sector workers are happy to bend the rules | 10-Sep-09 |
| Inside Housing | Expert opinion-How far are you prepared to go | 04-Sep-09 |
| Municipal Journal | Why are some managers not more angry more often? | 03-Sep-09 |
| Public Servant | Growing managers to meet real needs | Sep-09 |
| Municipal Journal | Why isn't a woman's place at the top? | 20-Aug-09 |
| Public Servant Daily | Who's making you sick? | 19-Aug-09 |
| Public Servant Daily | In Local Authorises a women's place is... | 18-Aug-09 |
| Public Servant | The secrets of success in a" yes" culture | Aug-09 |
| Public Guardian | No time for Machiavellian managers | 27-Jul-09 |
| Municipal Journal | Why new skills will help you survive the recession | 16-Jul-09 |
| Inside Housing | Maverick Managers | 03-Jul-09 |
| Pavilion - Ethnicity and Inequality in Health and Social Care | Equipping managers to lead a diverse workforce - Vol 2 Issue 2 | Jul-09 |
| Public Servant | The world's changed it's no longer Life on Mars | Jun-09 |
| Inside housing | The difference between the sexes | 29-May-09 |
| Public Servant Daily | Where do Coroners go for support | 14-May-09 |
| Public Servant | The wisdom of old big head | May-09 |
| Inside Housing | Cloughie's Lesion | 24-Apr-09 |
| Inside Housing | Angry Management | 03-Apr-09 |
| Public Servant | Welcome to a brilliant first day | 01-Apr-09 |
| Inside Housing | Hitting the Zzz | 06-Mar-09 |
| Russell House | UnLearning Management - short stories on modern management | 01-Feb-09 |
| Municipal Journal | How many of you think you can do my job | 18-Dec-08 |
| Inside Housing | Right for the job | 05-Dec-08 |
| Public Servant | Ready for that senior post | 01-Dec-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Learn the clichs to avoid them | 06-Nov-08 |
| NT | Wasting precious time | 14-Oct-08 |
| Inside Housing | At your service | 10-Oct-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Would you drop your manager in it | 18-Sep-08 |
| Public Servant | An every day tail of a city near you | 01-Sep-08 |
| Municipal Journal | District View | 01-Aug-08 |
| Inside Housing | Make me an Offer | 25-Jul-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Baffling with Bull | 25-Jul-08 |
| Public Servant | Down in the dumps | Jul-08 |
| Inside Housing | On the Spot | 27-Jun-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Grow your own talent | 26-Jun-08 |
| Health Service Journal | Solving the staff morale equation | 11-Jun-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Give credit where its due | 05-Jun-08 |
| Municipal Journal | Is performance culture forcing managers to fib? | 22-May-08 |
| Care and Health | I don't want rehab | 28-Apr-08 |
| Care and Health | Why are we waiting? | 25-Apr-08 |
| Care and Health | Conversation with an Ambulance Driver | 25-Apr-08 |
| Public Servant Daily | Not GP's anymore but business men educated with medical degrees | 22-Apr-08 |
| Nursing Times | Indifference says much more | 15/21 April 2008 |
| Guardian Unlimited | Casualties of a changing NHS | 15-Apr-08 |
| Inside Housing | Why trust starts at the top | 04-Apr-08 |
| Care and Health | NHS patient criss cross the motorway network to meet government waiting list targets | 02-Apr-08 |
| Public Servant Daily | Do you trust manager | 04-Mar-08 |
| Public Servant Daily | One size doesn't fit all when accessing Primary Care | 04-Mar-08 |
| Public Servant Daily | Do you trust your manager | 04-Mar-08 |
| Pavilion Publishing Ethnicity and Inequality in Health and Social Care | Do staff think you're a better manager � Evaluating Leadership Development | Mar-08 |
| The Municipal Journal | Do we still need social workers? | 28-Feb-08 |
| Care and Health | What difference to Senior Managers really make? | 25-Feb-08 |
| The Municipal Journal | Making life manageable | 21-Feb-08 |
| Can we help | Do you trust your manager | 20-Feb-08 |
| Care and Health | Now it's not star rating but satisfaction ratings | 06-Feb-08 |
| Inside housing | Show them who's boss | 01-Feb-08 |
| Care and Health | It's not unreasonable | 31-Jan-08 |
| Care and Health | I didn't hear it from the PM | 31-Jan-08 |
| Care and Health | What future social work with Adults | 31-Jan-08 |
| Human Resource Management International Digest | No more heroes | Vol 16 2008 |
| Care and Health | Managing your manager | 19-Dec-07 |
| Care and Health | Do your staff think you're a better manager? | 17-Dec-07 |
| Health Service Journal | Managing your manager | 11-Dec-07 |
| Care and Health | They are taking our jobs and our houses | 29-Nov-07 |
| Health Service Journal | The fear factor in management | 30-Oct-07 |
| Community Care | It can be hard to find the time to work from home | 18-Oct-07 |
| The Municipal Journal | Managing upwards | 11-Oct-07 |
| Guardian Unlimited | Abuse of Power | 10-Oct-07 |
| The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services | Taking the fear factor out of Leadership in the Public Services | 03-Oct-07 |
| Care and Health | Equality and Diversity in Health and Social Care | 03-Oct-07 |
| The International Journal of Leadership in Public Services | Taking the fear factor out of Leadership in the Public Services | 03-Oct-07 |
| Care and Health | Rediscovering the Public Sector ethos | 01-Oct-07 |
| Guardian Unlimited | Will elderly people be able to choose when they go to bed? | 16-Aug-07 |
| Care and Health | Working With the Faith Sector and Living with Contradictions | 07-Aug-07 |
| Care and Health | Only The Very Rich Get What They Want When They Want It | 02-Aug-07 |
| Care and Health | The links between equality and Social inclusion | 01-Aug-07 |
| Society Guardian | Getting Rights Right | 20-Jul-07 |
| Care and Health | Commissioning for Equality | 19-Jul-07 |
| Russell House | An Elephant in the Room - an equality and diversity training manual | 01-Jul-07 |
| Society Guardian | Capital in Culture | 26-Jun-07 |
| Community Care | Open Forum - Barbie and Action Man - Gender Stereotypes | 19-25 April 2007 |
| Society Guardian | Tomorrow's Workforce | 23-Mar-07 |
| Inside Housing | Taking a Stand Against Inequality | 16-Mar-07 |
| Community Care | Open Forum on Slavery | 8-14 March 2007 |
| Community Care | Open Forum | 8-14 February 2007 |
| Guardian Unlimited | Juggling New Life, Loss and Love | 01-Feb-07 |
| Community Care | Does Faith Divide Us | 25 - 31 January 2007 |
| Human Resource Management International Digest | Managing Racism in the Workplace | Volume 15, No 4, 2007 |
| The Guardian | Comment - Social Services is no more | 13-Sep-06 |
| Community Care | A Job Well Done | 10-16 August 2006 |
| Community Care | Mind Your Tongue | 22-28 June 2006 |
| Public (The Guardian) | How to Win Jobs and Influence People | 01-Jun-06 |
| Community Care | Bring on the Champions | 30-Mar-06 |
| The Municipal Journal | Following the Leader | 16-Mar-06 |
| The Municipal Journal | A Shameless Take on Council Services | 02-Mar-06 |
| Community Care | Losing Balance on the Ladder | 15-Dec-05 |
| Community Care | What I Would Have Done Differently | 20-Oct-05 |
| Community Care | Open Forum - Localism | 15-Sep-05 |
| Community Care | Question Time | 08-Sep-05 |
| The Municipal Journal | Local Voice Speaks Volumes | 14-Jul-05 |
| Local Government Chronicle | If I Were You | 09-Jun-05 |
| Health Service Journal | There's A Dream | 24-Feb-05 |
| Local Government Chronicle | Arise, the Deskbound | 01-Feb-05 |
| Community Care | Reflections - Changing role of social care staff | 31-Jul-02 |
| Local Government Chronicle | Applying Yourself | 09-Jun-00 |
| Community Care | Time to Promote League Tables | 13-May-99 |
| Municipal Journal | The Balance Power | 05-Jun-98 |
| Professional Social Work B.A.S.W | In Search of Cash Cows, Star Prospects and Dogs | 01-Aug-97 |
| Professional Social Work B.A.S.W | Adapt and Survive | 01-Mar-97 |
| The Health Business Summary | Community Care into the Millennium | 01-Oct-96 |
| Inside Housing | Why We Need to Challenge the Consultants | 01-Aug-96 |
| The Guardian | Careful Business | 06-Dec-95 |
| Care Weekly | A New Agenda | 01-Sep-95 |
| Care Weekly | The Hidden People | 10-Jul-92 |
| Social Work Today | Chinese Lesson | 09-Jul-92 |
| Care Weekly | Risking their Necks | 06-Mar-92 |
| Social Work Today | Points of View - User Involvement | 22-Aug-91 |
| Care Weekly | The Road to Equality | 02-Aug-91 |
| Care Weekly | Sympathy for Risky Tea | 07-Dec-90 |
| Care Weekly | Weekender | 28-Jun-90 |
| Care Weekly | A Day in the Life | 17-Nov-89 |
| Care Weekly | Change from Inside the Goldfish Bowl | 17-Nov-89 |
| Care Weekly | When Staff Lose Control | 12-May-89 |
| Care Weekly | 1+1=3 Staffing Rotas in Residential Homes | 02-Dec-88 |
| Care Weekly | Enforced Removal | 28-Oct-88 |
| Social Work Today | In Whose Best Interest | 22-Sep-88 |
| Care Weekly | Home from Home | 28-May-88 |
| Social Work Today | Nothing Ventured...Risk Taking in Community Care | 10-Mar-88 |
| Social Work Today | The Success of a unique scheme for elderly mentally ill people | 16-Nov-87 |