Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?
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Tesco creates 20K jobs. M&S wastes 7K jobs. Business as Usual?

Same market, same industry but different C-suite, obviously. We believe that less is more and that the post’s title should be enough. More on this topic CNN: UK’s biggest supermarket adds 16,000 jobs to cope with online shopping boom Retail Gazette: M&S to scrap 7000 jobs Reason‘s blogs:

The Economics of #MeToo & Reference Checks: Do Recruiters Care?
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The Economics of #MeToo & Reference Checks: Do Recruiters Care?

Abuse of power and backlisting are undoubtedly strengthened by dogmatic, arbitrary and unregulated practices of References / Background Checks leaving real risk prevention for businesses and candidates/employees often unaddressed. As a new landmark decision related to #MeToo has just been taken in the US, we are sharing here an article about “The Economics of #MeToo and How to…

Resilience Association Next Webinar on COVID-19 Exit Strategy
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Resilience Association Next Webinar on COVID-19 Exit Strategy

On Wed 29th July, 6pm: Opening the door on what leadership, management and operations are currently thinking about on the COVID-19 “new normal” About this Event and Booking The Resilience Association is pleased to provide you with another COVID-19 Exit Strategy Free to attend Webinar, this time focusing on “What does the new normal look like?” reason are delighted…

Corporate Insights and ‘Single Version of the Truth’ Principle
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Corporate Insights and ‘Single Version of the Truth’ Principle

From assertive goodwill to consistent reality: Why Praxis matters. Clarifications about a highly underestimated strategic question. When it comes to Reporting, Analytics and Insights, there is little more important for organisations than the principle of a Single Version of the Truth (SVoT). This principle often expresses the data warehousing design ideal, at IT level, with…

How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?
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How Resilient is Your Organisation to a Business Disaster?

Post written with Steve Yates, Chairman of the Resilience Association. Ensuring business continuity and resilience should be the priority, if not already the norm. 2019 was sadly a catastrophic year for certain industry sectors, with too many organizations going “bust”, in some cases a short time after their financial accounts had been cleared by top…

Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it
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Lots of information circulates on global warming and man’s role in it

A few facts to help and think about. At reason, we know that looking at facts is the beginning of the understanding of a topic, and an issue if it is seen as such. The Global Carbon Atlas is a good place to start when looking at facts about CO2 emissions. The below map shows the 2017 world’s…