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Articles by Blair McPherson

Sorry is the hardest word

By Blair McPherson | 03 November 2020

For the sake of the organisation sometimes you just have to swallow your pride, accept the critic...

The difficulty with hired guns 

By Blair McPherson | 29 October 2020

Independence and credibility are not the only factors to the fore when deciding whether to use ma...

Good news for the nice

By Blair McPherson | 07 September 2020

When it comes to climbing the corporate career ladder being nasty or nice won’t determine your ad...

To the moon and back

By Blair McPherson | 30 July 2020

The model for getting a man on the moon is a good one for the post COVID world of local governmen...

We have been here before on cohesion and diversity

By Blair McPherson | 16 July 2020

Blair McPherson says the only thing more detrimental to the causes of cohesion and diversity than...

The best managers are misfits and weirdos 

By Blair McPherson | 05 June 2020

Organisations with a higher tolerance of misfits and weirdos will benefit from their creativity, ...

It's all part of the myth

By Blair McPherson | 07 May 2020

Blair Mcpherson rejects the stereotype of  an old-fashioned local authority chief executive of 20...

Is it too early to discuss the exit strategy and local recovery plans?

By Blair McPherson | 07 April 2020

Blair Mcpherson says that for the COVID-19 recovery plan to be successful politicians will need t...

Who you gonna call 

By Blair McPherson | 10 February 2020

If an urgent problem emerges at a local authority, whose call should a senior director return fir...

Take a chance on me - the recruitment lottery

By Blair McPherson | 10 January 2020

Maybe we should just recognise that recruitment is a lottery and get rid of the whole recruitment...