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Most doctors work at several different hospitals to gain experience, although they can only move to a new hospital, when another doctor leaves – so they all need to move at the same time. August is the biggest rotation of the year, and this week, my team and I trained 256 new doctors how to

Unless you’re the manager! A group of talented individuals can only produce the best team performance if it is well managed. How are you managing your talented individuals? With the Olympics in full swing, and the memory of England’s success at the Euros fresh in our minds, I thought I’d talk about teams again. A

Julian’s Business Tips by Julian Berry… I was going to write something about the election this month, but I couldn’t think where to start! I could look at the different parties’ approach to business, I could speculate on the likely outcome – but I felt we would all be heartily sick of hearing all that by

To make progress, we need to set targets, goals, and objectives – call them whatever you like – but to be effective, they should be SMART. Let’s work through the SMART acronym (there are some slight variations in the meanings, but they all end up in the same place). I’m going to use a non-business

I was in a meeting today with some senior directors talking about future digital strategies. One of the directors surprised the whole room, when they said, ‘We need to do less…’ Well, that was unusual! I’ve always understood that if you’re not moving forward, then you’re actually going backwards in a digital world. But then