I was asked on Twitter for my thoughts on how to succeed in job interviews, particularly Civil Service ones, and thought a blog the best way of responding. So here goes. Let’s get one thing clear at the outset: no-one is always successful in job interviews. That’s because there's no guaranteed formula. Someone with a [...]
Hands up who wants to make bad decisions? No-one, of course. But then, they do still keep getting made. What’s going on? Individuals slip up - of course they do. But sometimes they’re trapped in an organisational culture where the chances of slipping up are significantly higher. There might be a number of factors in [...]
Football is, of course, the beautiful game. I’ve been entranced by it since my youngest days. It provides a common, almost universal language. And whether you like the game or not, it runs through our national culture like letters through a stick of rock. My team is Charlton Athletic. I started supporting Charlton not long [...]
