NL January 2017

Your Master's Voice....

The Shop Talk continues to be an important and informal networking activity for members , who want to "talk shop". Speakers this year will all focus on issues that are relevant to the management consultancy profession now and in the future.  A new venue is The Counting House, 50 Cornhill, London, EC3V 3PD,  near bank Tube.

Please make a note of the dates.  I look forward to seeing you.....

Tuesday 28^th March - Martin Blackburn Head of People at KPMG UK:  The people challenges facing professional service firms over the next 5 years"

Tuesday 27^th June - Anthony Philips MD Welkom International

" Wellness the next competitive edge in the modern war for talent"

This contribution will focus on how companies are beginning to look at wellness as a part of their overall organisational development strategy to maintain and increase their competitiveness

Thursday 28^th September - Richard Stewart MD Mindbench: "Annual Survey of the MC industry, key trends and opportunities "

Tuesday 28th November Dr. Anne-Lise Goddings: “Change in Mind” . Dr. Goddings will talk about the neurology of the brain and what current research on the brain structure and consciousness teach us about how people manage and mismanage organisational change.

Banquet at Mansion House:  25th April 2017:  Please also save the date for our first ever white tie Banquet at the Mansion House. We are expecting to be joined by the Lord Mayor Dr. Andrew Parmley and Sheriffs.

Noorzaman Rashid, Master

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The picture for global trade in 2017 is uncertain and likely to be dominated by the Politics of trade rather than the Economics....  Liveryman and Economist, Rebecca Harding, provides a January 2017 Trade Outlook.... 

A "Serial" Master.... A former Master Haberdasher and Past Master of the Management Consultants,

Mike Jeans was installed as Master Chartered Accountant in Haberdashers; Hall on 12th October 2016....

After the excesses of Xmas, these HomeTrapeze exercises are simple, and extremely effective....  Liveryman Gia Campari swears by these....        

Another page in the diary of our Visitor from Space [1st Episode in October '16 Newsletter] 

After careful observation, I have decided to adopt the form of species with 4 limbs and a 5th at the rear of its body, which moves continuously....  Liveryman Jeff Cant reports....

An invitation came to Freeman Martina Platts for a voluntary position to teach at a remote rural farm school in the Free State of South Africa....

After 30 years of management with C&L, PWC and IBM - "How hard could it be?" we thought....   

PM Patrick Chapman chairs the Ealing Music & Film Festival, now in its fifth year. World Class concerts and films - all to support young Ealing performers ....  www.ealingmusicandfilmfestival.org

Even before I entered the world of work I wanted to retire....  Now, with another three seasons of Breaking Bad to get through...  Freeman Don Leslie outlines his Strategy....

Our Livery Company is a key partner in a programme aimed at improving governance in the charity sector throughout the country.  More than 19,000 charity trustees - drawn from the 900,000 charity trustees in England and Wales were surveyed..... Liveryman Bob Harris reports....

The High Court considers the duty of accountants to disclose to one client confidential information relating to another.....  First Warden, David Johnson, submits for scrutiny a case recorded on 13 December 2016....  

NOTICES

Management Consultants take control of the 2017 client workplace….

• · Find out where your client shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after the client does. (This is especially effective if your client is of a different gender identity).

• · Drop meaningless and confusing "management-speak" into conversations such as: "What's the margin, Marvin?" "When's this turkey going to get basted?" "If we don't get this brook babbling we're all going to end up looking like doe-eyed beavers."

• · Make up silly nicknames for all your coworkers and refer to them only by these names. “That’s a good point, Sparky.” “No I’m sorry I’m going to have to disagree with you there, Choo-choo.”

• · Send emails to the rest of the company telling them what you’re doing. For example “If anyone needs me, I’ll be in the bathroom.”

• · Put up mosquito netting around your cubicle.

• · While riding a lift, gasp dramatically every time the doors open.

• · Encourage your colleagues to join you in a little synchronized chair dancing.

• · Put your rubbish bin on your desk. Label it “IN.”

• · Develop an unnatural fear of staplers.

• · As much as possible, skip rather than walk.

• · At meetings around the conference table, bend momentarily under the table and then emerge wearing contact lenses that white-out your eyes.

• · Use a large hunting knife to point at your visual aids.

• · Put decaf in the coffeemaker for 3 weeks. After everyone has got over their caffeine addictions, suddenly switch to espresso.

• · Leave long pauses in your speech at random moments. When someone is prompted to interject shout "I AM NOT FINISHED."

Note:  Using the "Recent News" tab will bring you to ALL the articles submitted by Members to past newsletters....  use them to find other Members who share your interests and to make connections....!