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GROWING A NEW LEG

20-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman I was in Belgrade, Serbia, recently to speak at a conference of Business people. On the way in from the Airport to my hotel, I asked the young driver as to whether he felt that things had improved or worsened since my last trip to Belgrade a year... read more »

HUMAN ENERGY IS THE GREATEST RENEWABLE RESOURCE

09-Jul-2012 - Les Hayman The dictionary defines renewable energy as “any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, such as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric powerthat is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.” I was in India ... read more »

GIVING POSITIVE NEGATIVE FEEDBACK

05-Dec-2011 - Les Hayman Noted French writer Francois de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) said “Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.” via Wikimedia Commons (United States public domain) Many managers ... read more »

COME BACK E.T. EUROPE NEEDS YOU

07-Nov-2011 - Les Hayman Here we are in November 2011 and despite efforts by the Greek Prime Minister to personally derail the rescue, the Euro has been resolutely saved … yet again. This time all that was needed was to increase the European Financial Stability Facility ... read more »

VIVE LA FRANCE

25-Jun-2010 - Les Hayman The French Unions have called for National Strikes in response to the Government’s announcement that it will raise the official pensionable retirement age in France from 60 to 62. This could be the first real test of the Sarkozy Government... read more »

Equality Bill, Diversity Management

06-Oct-2008 - Damian Williams Diversity management is one of the largest challenges organizations will face over the next decade. Making sure an organization has a successful mix of staff from different genders, races, ages and ability levels is not only becoming a legal requi... read more »

The Equality Bill – Time to Sit Up and Take Notice

08-Sep-2008 - Damian Williams The Government’s Equality Bill, announced by Deputy Labour leader and Equalities Minister Harriet Harman in July, has been long anticipated by public sector organizations and long dreaded by many of them. While the anticipation of the Bill a... read more »