Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/we-need-to... This is a magnificent tirade - about time someone tore apart Vance’s ridiculous but sinister speech

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

Just 6 weeks to go for submission to www.ulster.ac.uk/conference/u.... Time to get fingers to keyboard. So looking forward to learning about leading edge HRD practice and research. This event could well be the highlight of 2025 @jellliott.bsky.social