“I’m not here to make any friends. The process is not personal. It’s business. She is ruthless. She’ll walk over anybody, chew them up for breakfast and spit them out. That’s what I like about her.” Alan Sugar
“There’s the difference between us. You believe in friendship, I believe in leverage.” Amanda Waller, Suicide Squad
I really don’t like the television programme The Apprentice.
Why?
It’s a celebration of managerialism… a modern form of social dominance.
It insidiously spreads the notion that organising based on neoliberalism is the only form of leadership.
Some say that it is only a bit of fun, a caricature.
People tell me “lighten up”.
Real life leaders are not as authoritarian. In fact many are actually nice.
While tis the season for naughty or nice,
Managerialism with a smile is still managerialism.
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I am a ‘People Practitioner’ who has, over the years, been swept up by the tidal wave of change that has seen my profession go from being called Manpower Management to Personnel Management to Human Resource Management, and now back, well sort of… to Systemic People Management. I came up with the last phrase because I find myself increasingly uncomfortable with working within the confines of the ubiquitous neo-liberal approach to categorising and organising people. I believe that people are people, not merely assets, human capital or resources. While we do find fulfilment from PRODUCTivity, we are ultimately human beings, not human doings. I would like to transcend who we have become and becoming in a marketized, monetarised world and leave the corporatist worldview that reminds me so much of the allegory of Plato’s Cave.
I love God, my family, playing guitar, following Arsenal, travelling and taking and editing photos. This website is a celebration of all these things and more.
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