employee engagement

What is the best way to know if NHS is effective and efficient?  And in particular, how do we know what reforms are needed and how we should bring them about?

I've pulled out a number of reports which compare NHS historically, and with other countries, to decide if it is effective and if not, what we need to do about it

A fascinating case study of success in some of the most challenging times in the last 200 years, the author Vineet Nayar describes his journey turning HCL Technologies from a company being left behind to a world leader.

There is so much to learn from this case study, and so much to apply to many other business situations too.

How is a project like a war?  Well, there's the politics, of course.  and the unexpected, and the different characters who plan / command / just do it / run away.  There's the rich embroidery of different parts of the project coming together to produce something beautiful.

I went to an Association of Project Managers' meeting by the North East branch, where one of my favourite speakers Stephen Carver (of Cranfield University) used the Battle of Hastings to illustrate.  Read more . . .

The relationship between employer and employee is at its most strained at the moment, as employers face difficult financial times and look to cut costs.  But now is the time that you most need input from your employees.