For The Want of a Nail

The silo mentality - leading to behaviours where otherwise excellent management can fail to act for the wider good of a department or organisation - is recognised as one of the key problems with the British-style operation.

To many policy makers employees are just data on a spreadsheet. For advertisers and marketeers they're just headcount that the company is trying to attract...

Consulting business ruins profits through failure to act

Best Hiring Practice turns around this former market leader

Seven For The Price Of One

An operations director laments the loss of a major new contract: solely, in his opinion, down to refusal to finance a market-relevant hiring strategy

When more than an entire year's net operating profit was wiped out for this company, the notes in the end of year accounts reported a quality problem as the cause. The operations director, however, knew that the real issue was a hiring problem; entirely brought about by mistakenly treating this key area as a commoditised purchase.......

The provider of this case study intially stated that she was too busy as a manager to 'waste' an hour going through the process I advocated. When asked about the last hire she was involved in, this is what our member shared with us.......