Monthly Archives: March 2012

What happened to the ‘Job For Life’?

It’s my wedding anniversary today; four years, no time at all in the halls of marriage….. but in career terms, four years is now a well above average tenure. What happened to the ‘job for life’? Times move on, businesses move on and careers have certainly moved on. The average (median) tenure for people’s current jobs […]

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How much growth is enough?

We appear to be obsessed with growth. It’s the subject of just about every board meeting and strategic discussion.  It is also often topic number one in the ‘broadsheets’ and even in the tabloids. Will the economy grow by 2% this year? Or will we face disaster and barely make 1%? But what is growth? […]

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Fur Coat, No Knickers.

Style over substance. “Image is everything”. We spend £1,000s on clothes, skin care, hair products every year (and women can be even worse) all in the quest of improving our image. Dozens of entire industries have been born out of humans desire to maximise how others see and perceive us – irrespective of what the […]

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