“Taking place in the shadow of the closed-down shipbuilding yards, “Sweet Sixteen” rages against the callousness of a capitalist system which abandons its workers”

Excerpt from a BBC review of Ken Loach’s film Sweet Sixteen

I was brought up in one of the grey council houses that feature in that film.
We used to build ships in [...]

OK, I admit it. Today I am very fed-up and wondering why I do what I do for a living.
I have just read this article in HR Review and thought ‘ho-hum’. It is headed ‘Businesses Urged To Give Employees ‘More Autonomy and Less Intensive Management’’ and comments on a new report from the Work Foundation, [...]

Radical Remedies?
I am re-visiting the meeting of 35 of ‘the world’s most progressive thinkers on management and organisation’ in May 2008. The output from the meeting was a list of twenty five stretch goals for management, Management Moonshots, ten of which were ‘regarded as uniquely critical.’
I have been worrying away at this like a dog [...]