Binge Thinking Archives

Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela - 28 Oct 2008

As Nelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday next week he has given an interview to Time Magazine to summarise his top 8 leadership lessons in life.

They are mostly practical. Many of them stem directly from his personal experience.

As Time says: “All of them are calibrated to cause the best kind of trouble: the trouble that forces us to ask how we can make the world a better place”.

HR Business or People Discipline? - 09 Oct 2008

Getting past the depressing front pages of this week’s Personnel Today (‘credit crunch’ ‘500,000 jobs to go’ etc.) my eye was drawn to an article on page 4 entitled: ‘CIPD vows to raise HR profile by working with government’.  In the article (by Guy Logan) it says that ‘Jackie Orme, chief executive of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), has pledged to work with the government to improve the standing of HR professional in the boardroom.’