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Simon Guilfoyle
- @JezLester Yeah, been there too. My book starts of with me admitting I've done the red/green target stuff. I didn't know any better! 34 minutes ago
- @JezLester The unlearning stage is often the hardest 42 minutes ago
- @JezLester Mixed. Have experienced resistance/denial in the past, but recently more and more are genuinely interested and accepting. 54 minutes ago
- @haselour @MatthewEllis Me too :-) 1 hour ago
- @SWPHPDS Cool. Look forward to hearing your thoughts.. :-) 1 hour ago
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Hey! Had to comment on equally wrong. Great post by the way. But I remember innocently asking as a recruiting manager “surely isn’t the purpose to hire the right person for the job?”, and being told by hr, yes, but you need to hit your equality targets… Seriously,!
Excellent summary. Applies universally. Author could have been working in NHS or indeed any public service one suspects.
Your increase in blog traffic is coincident in time with a link to this site being posted on a internal forum for lean practitioners who work in a large govt dept. Not that that means anything necessarily!