Earlier this week I received the email equivalent of a slap in the face with a wet fish, when the good people at McKinsey wrote to me, and doubtless may others, with this note:

Mobilizing your C-suite for big-data analytics.
Leadership-capacity constraints are undermining many companies’ efforts. New management structures, roles, and divisions of labor can all be part of the solution.

I was then encouraged to click ‘more’, yet I could take no more, my own ‘capacity constraint’ having been breached.

I moved on, at least I thought I did. Whilst working in the office today I came across a card my late Father wrote to me a couple of years ago. Inside the card are these simple words:

Dear Doug, I am so very pleased that your change in direction job-wise is working out. As a job for life civil servant I wouldn’t have had the balls. You have my utmost regard and admiration. With my love – Dad xx.

Doug Shaw, HRExaminer Editorial Advisory Board Contributor

When did it become OK to check your heart and soul in with security on arrival at work? I don’t think I got that memo.