Over the next 3 Fridays we will be looking at the top three big reasons that recruitment goes wrong Today – reason 1 – people are in a hurry. Didn’t your Mother ever tell you – more haste less speed? Mine did – but that doesn’t always stop you does it? You know what it’s […]
Woman’s Hour
This morning I was on Woman’s Hour with Jenny Murray. The other guest speaker was Laurie Cohen, who has written a book tracking women’s thoughts about their careers over 17 years and finding out if their career aspirations have come to fruition. Jenny asked me why I had always known I wanted to run my […]
25 Years Of Planning
25 Years Of Planning… I was watching the news yesterday about the “Rosetta” mission – a robotic probe landing on a comet 300 million miles away from earth. It’s an amazing achievement and took 25 years to plan and execute, apparently. The probe was launched more than 10 years ago on 2nd March 2004, estimated […]
The Definition of Insanity
I am sure you have heard this before – The Definition of Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. The quote has been attributed to both Einstein and Franklin. According to Wiki – neither are true. But the statement sure is. And that made me think – why is […]
Comfortable inaction
Comfortable inaction is not doing something because at the present time the consequences of not acting are not bad enough to force you to take action. To make this clearer here are some examples: • Thinking “I need to lose weight,” but doing nothing about it because you can still fit into your clothes. • […]