9 February 2016, 1 pm
I have spent the morning reading CVs and accompanying statements from people who want to be the next IPReg Chair. Between them, they have been doing an awful lot of Strategic Leadership and Change Management in Challenging Environments. I had no idea there were so many challenging environments in the UK today, but I guess with so many people wandering about doing Strategic Leadership there are likely to be a few challenges to deal with. And how else does a person build up a CV? After four hours, and still only a third of the way through the task, my desk has become quite a challenging environment in itself. I decide it is time to down tools and instead give some strategic thought to Things You Can Put in a Pancake. The ability to create the perfect Shrove Tuesday main course may not count as a transferable professional skill, but it is nevertheless a source of personal satisfaction and there are not many of those left. 9 February 2016, 3.30 pm I am a thoroughly modern business woman. I am reading the CVs of strategic leaders whilst waiting for a mammogram. Of course, a mammogram can only happen if they can find anything worth X-raying, and if when they find it, it has not migrated so far south as to need referring to a podiatrist. In my case, it is touch and go on both counts, although my waistline is doing its best to hinder the downward migration of upper body parts by creating an ever-expanding barrier to their progress. Whilst I wait, and read, and muse to myself about whether “transformational change management” is a euphemism for firing everyone you don’t like, I am also thinking of how I will roast the red peppers till their skins blacken and crumble the goat’s cheese and tear up the Parma ham, not to mention what I will do with the butterscotch sauce. This is called multi-tasking. It will doubtless get me into trouble at the appointments panel meeting on Thursday, because I will refer to the candidates’ strategic crumbliness and their challenging apple butterscotch management, or worse still, their skins blackening, and no amount of crusading about diversity and name-blind CVs is going to get me out of that one.
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