Without a doubt the artifacts of diversity and inclusion at work are here to stay: unconscious bias training, employee networks, the initiatives aimed at women, the awareness courses, the statistics and the measurement: the smorgasbord of imaginative ideas aimed at creating change. These are all elements which make valuing diversity a reality. What is new […]
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I was but a small girl when Martin Luther King made his ‘I have a dream’ speech on that late August day in 1963. This morning on the Radio 4 Professor Clayborne Carson introduced a deeply moving reminiscence of those days and a roll call of civil rights champions across the last fifty years read […]
I have been interested in the advice currently being shared about ‘what to do when you are bullied’. Sadly most of it is idealised, text book advice, which does not take into account organisational real politik. The truth is that bullying is messy, highly emotional charged, multi-faceted and collusive. The only way bullies can be […]
A former colleague’s mum died recently: she was on the Liverpool Care Pathway and did not have a ‘good’ death. In her powerful article in Disability Now, From fact to fiction: the making and breaking of the Liverpool Care Pathway , Nikki Kenward in turn educates and dismays us about its misuse. She concludes with: […]
An immensely clever, able friend of mine worked for someone who was afraid. It stopped him being effective. It drove my friend to distraction and eventually out of the organisation which badly needed his skills. The boss in question was possibly afraid of my friend’s vision, capability and sheer energy: and definitely afraid of the […]
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