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Engage Your Staff

15 January, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Keeping your employees engaged is a huge challenge. In fact some regard it as the biggest management challenge of all.  There is lots of debate and theories abound: “pay more”, “flexible working”, “listen to your employees”, “engagement circles”.  The list goes on. My favourite theory is that of Patrick Lencioni who has written a super […]

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Spies Like Us

28 December, 2009 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I have reached that age when for Christmas I am given socks, chocolates and paperbacks. I am half way through this year’s crop of paperbacks and found this quote in a John le Carre novel. “A desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world” I learnt the same lesson working in a […]

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