management consultancy

We need to consider what we, as organisations and individuals, can do to reduce our own carbon footprints. It’s all very well to talk about it, but this winter, this extreme weather, shows just how close global warming could be. For Britain, global warming doesn’t mean getting warmer, it means getting colder – we’re on the same latitude as Alaska, and we should expect that sort of weather.

How can I even say the two in the same breath? Some management consultants are very cost-effecive:

How expensive are salaried staff?
Your employees need: holidays, training, sick leave, compassionate leave, pensions, NI, administration, appraisals. All of this adds up to around 2.4* the original cost of their salary, in other words whereas your front-line workforce might cos

There seems to be an enormous gulf, in healthcare, between those that care for patients, and those that administer. Neither side seems to trust the other – clinicians accuse managers of thinking only of costs, and in return managers complain of a refusal to recognise limited resources. This applies in other environments, eg social care, where care professionals and management also seem to struggle to bridge the communication gulf.