Personal Development

Getting heard at the top

If you want to be heard at board level, you have to think like a board member. Getting marked out as a rising star may mean putting your head above the parapet. Stephan Stern reports

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The black book and other dark secrets of HR at Westminster

The whips office at the House of Commons is, in theory, Westminsters equivalent of HR. But, as Peter Oborne reveals, it has a lot more in common with the Freemasons

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The hard-won road to credibility

As a Princeton engineering graduate, Bob Stack may not have expected to find himself rising to the top of Cadbury Schweppes as an executive director and chief of HR, says Morice Mendoza

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Rupert Murdochs smooth operator

If you were asked to name the top 20 HR-focused organisations in the UK, BSkyB wouldnt immediately spring to mind, HR director Craig McCoy admits. But hes got the answers as to how thats going to...

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Creating an impression

The whole point of attending those part-work, part-social functions is to meet people who might be important to you. Steve Smethurst discovers how to make the most of them

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John Lewis: is it working?

John Lewiss form of worker co-ownership has been described as a blueprint for a more humane way of doing business. Meg Carter reports

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