Here some notes and resources from my recent GMB Equalities course. This is the final part of my NOON III course in Trade Union studies.
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Why treat the CEO as a superman?
OpenAI just did a boomerang firing of its CEO, Sam Altman. The press went mad as did the stock price. Their major investor and most of the staff demanded his reinstatement and got what they wanted but why? What did and does Altman bring to the company, he seems to be a venture capital manager,…
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A living wage
It’s conference time for the GMB, and prompted by some members I looked at the state of policy development on low pay and the living wage. The GMB Policy is stated in its policy guide albeit dated 2021. I look at Labour’s “A new deal for working people” and note that the GMB’s minimum wage…
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On the WOTC OGL
At the turn of the years 2022/23 Wizards of the Coast shocked their 3rd party creator community by proposing to revoke their open licence and charge royalties on successful derived content. I created this page to track the events and comments made and posted a blog article, On WOTCs permissive licences, also mirrored on medium….
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Merch
I was asked by my sister for advice on building a web e-commerce solution which set me thinking about if I could sell some “merch”. Here are my notes. …
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Visualising London data
I wanted to say something simple about the cost of desk space in London and made it complicated. I made a map showing relative costs, this is how.
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Misconduct in a Public Office
I have had to think about this too much over the last year; and it keeps coming. Here are my notes, mainly about, Boris Johnson as PM & Mayor of London and the Nolan Principles. …
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Corporate Intelligence
On corporate intelligence; sometimes one wants to know who owns what, and sometimes one needs to know how profitable a company is. I used to use due dil, but they want a shed load of money these days, not saying they are not worth it, but I am not paying that for personal curiosity although…
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manifestly unfounded or excessive
It seems some organisations have caught up with the ability to refuse a DSAR because the request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. I am not sure where in the GDPR this was permitted, by which I mean, I don’t think it was. Here are some links.
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Brexit & the City
It is well understood that the post brexit trade deal excludes services including financial services, what does this mean? Here are my notes, which I converted into a piece on linkedin …
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Cross Cultural Management
Cross Cultural Management, is this such a thing? Here are my links and notes …
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Corruption
Sadly I have been looking to see what’s being said about Corruption and Anti-Corruption. Here are my links and notes. I have some links on management strategy, and some specifically on action plans inc. current advice from the MoJ. Interestingly, to me, the action plans share many ideas from risk management practices and IT Security…
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Virtual Offices, for an occasional user
I have been thinking about how to get time and space in an office in the city & the west end; most providers are interested in very high option prices i.e. they expect a high usage of desk space. This isn’t what I need but here are my notes …
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Value Discipines
I was thinking about business/IT strategy alignment and was reminded of the operational efficiency vs product excellence dichotomy that I have struggled with for years. I hadn’t realised it has one source, research by by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema. These theories came to be known as Value Disciplines and they included “customer intimacy” as…
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Data Subject Access Requests
I was looking for a DSAR template, but couldn’t find anything for free, except the ICO page. So I made one, here are my notes, or will be …
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