Reality bites
01 Dec 2002 | by RICHARD REEVES, a consultant and business writer
Reality bites - Far from being liberating, IT feels enslaving. E-mail becomes a daily tyranny, the mobile phone a corporate electronic tagging device.
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BRAIN FOOD: Terence Ahern - If I had to start again
01 Dec 2002 | by TERENCE AHERN, an associate of Walker Crips Weddle Beck
BRAIN FOOD: Terence Ahern - If I had to start again - I always wanted to be a partner of a City firm and get to the top - which I managed by my own enterprise. In business, just as in rugby, which I refereed until I was 73, the fundamentals remain the sam
What's your problem?
11 Nov 2002 | by Jeremy Bullmore
A LEADER OBSESSED WITH FEEDBACK. Our boss has just returned from a management course, and he's become obsessive about asking us how we're doing, offering us appraisals, banging on about EQ and insisting on weekly group discussions to tell both him and each other how we're all feeling.
What's your problem?
11 Nov 2002 | by Jeremy Bullmore
I'M IN A DOWNWARD SPIRAL. For some time my boss has been trying to take away half my project responsibilities without consultation. He built a case of 'lacking necessary competence' as a justification for the role change and embarrassed me in front of my management team.
First class coach
01 Nov 2002 | by Miranda kennett
I was up for a promotion recently, but in the end the job went to an external candidate. I was fed up not to be chosen and I now feel very disappointed - I'm sure I could do the job just as well as the guy who got it, probably better.
What's your problem?
01 Nov 2002 | by Jeremy Bullmore
MY CHAIRMAN IS A BACK-SEAT DRIVER. I was recently taken on as manager for a small company. The chairman, despite deciding to take a back-seat role in the business, constantly interferes and goes over my head with clients.
BRAIN FOOD: Maurice Flanagan - If I had to start again ..
01 Nov 2002 | by MAURICE FLANAGAN CBE, who is 74 this month, is group managing director of Emirates airline
BRAIN FOOD: Maurice Flanagan - If I had to start again .. - I planned to teach as back-stop to playing professional soccer, but national service had to come first. In the RAF I was given the choice of navigator or pilot: I chose navigator. A fantastic two
REALITY BITES: It's time to call the bluff of the small business lobby. It is outrageous to argue that the employees of small firms are less entitled to rights than others
01 Nov 2002 | by RICHARD REEVES, a consultant and business writer
REALITY BITES: It's time to call the bluff of the small business lobby. It is outrageous to argue that the employees of small firms are less entitled to rights than others - Tony Blair has a message for his ministers: Think small. This may sound odd comin
What's your problem?
11 Oct 2002 | by Jeremy Bullmore
Our MD has suffered the bereavement of a fairly distant relative It's turned him into a monster to work for - he bullies staff, and walked out during a private chat I'd set up with him.
First class coach
01 Oct 2002 | by Miranda Kennet
FIRST CLASS COACH - I look at the conventional role models for leaders and realise I'm not like that and never will be.
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