Four months of search, six interviews, an assessment, references checked, a business case and finally, an accepted offer. Then, just hours before signing the contract, the candidate pulls out. Our immediate response is almost always the same – “there must have been...
Here is a seemingly simple question: how many times have you moved house or to a different region or country? It would probably be considered inappropriate if asked so directly in a job interview. Yet behind this deliberately provocative question lies an interesting...
“A company that needs HR is a company with bad managers.” The statement is blunt and deliberately provocative, but it highlights a real issue: when managers are unwilling to address problems directly, HR ends up dealing with them instead, from everyday workplace...
In a recent publication, the CEO of Anthropic highlighted a key paradox: the widening gap between the theoretical capabilities of AI and it actually being adopted within organisations. Today, AI is capable of automating or enhancing a significant share of...
A cognitive bias is a bit like cholesterol: everyone knows it exists, but nobody thinks it applies to them. Of course, it is always someone or something else that is biased. The colleague who “doesn’t understand the strategy”. The market that “reacts irrationally”....
Published on 21 April 2026, a study by Chaberton Partners, “CHRO: The Orchestrator of the Adaptive Organisation”, highlights three major HR trends: the impact of AI on jobs, the resilience of organisations in an unpredictable and unstable environment and the growing...
