Our Recovery Team Lead, Duane, has an extra team member this holiday season—his Elf on the Shelf! It looks like they're getting into the festive spirit and keeping Duane on his toes. 🎄
What’s your Elf on the Shelf been up to? Share your photos and holiday fun with us—we can’t wait to see! 🎁✨
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May the 4th be with you! Celebrate the holiday by finding the R2-D2 to your C-3PO and adopt a Lucky Dog or Cat! Which Lucky Dog and Star Wars comparison do you think is the most accurate? Let us know in the comments! #IAmLuckyDog#AdoptDontShop#StarWars#StarWarsDay
Yesterday was International Match Day 🔥! On 27 November, we celebrated John Walker, who unintentionally revolutionized fire starting in 1826 with the invention of the match – a small spark that forever changed the way we light fires. At #teamWAGNER, we go one step further: by reducing oxygen levels in critical environments, we ensure that matches, lighters or even sparks never have a chance to become a fire risk. Our promise: No loss caused by fire – guaranteed.
How we actively ensure maximum safety even before fires start 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZG-QQ2w#fireprotection#fireprevention
In Praise of Bravery
By Robert Moskowitz
Bravery might not tie in directly with productivity and success, but I believe there are important advantages to cultivating a little more bravery than you’ve got right now.
I’m not talking about the kind of bravery that leads to fighting dragons, storming beaches, or charging into the teeth of enemy defenses. I’m talking about the kind of bravery that results in you having difficult conversations, addressing your weaknesses, choosing uncertain or unpopular courses of action, honoring long-term commitments that have grown burdensome, and doing what’s right despite incentives to do otherwise.
Here are some of the advantages that accrue to those who can demonstrate a little extra bravery:
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It's NAOSH Week!
Peter Lucas is cooking up a safety focused trivia games for staff. What is your team doing to focus on Health & Safety this week? Let us know!!
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Seasons Greetings.
Here at Brown Boots Town Planning we are taking time to reflect on what has happened over the last 12 months and The Game carries on and it is game.
Those 12 months have mainly been filled with veiled threats from the judiciary, admin, mainly admin, emails, back and forth with Local Planning Authorities who on the face of it are being difficult for difficults sake, but underneath they are struggling to provide any kind of service because of the last 14 years of degradation, incompetence and the emergence of management by people who want to be managers.
The best managers are the ones that don’t want to be managers (The great Bob Paisley), the art of understanding The Game, natural ability to understand people, decision making and clear judgement, knowing the consequences of their actions. This approach is rapidly being lost in a fog of self preservation and conflict avoidance or governance by people who quite simply are having their strings pulled on the promise of an extra days leave or the extra few quid we all need.
I read a lot of self congratulatory posts, self praise demonstrating single mindedness of career progression or how they have reinvented the wheel, demonstrating publicly how they can do the job, I find it quite sad really, I think people are enveloped by their work (profession) more than ever, you are never away from it, the days of turning up completing a task to a good standard simply isn’t good enough anymore, maybe the seeping of academia into professional jobs, the incessant need for people to add their two pence worth, correcting people where it is really isn’t required, reminder asking a question isn’t questioning someones integrity, its about understanding or trying to understand.
So here at Brown Boots Town Planning we try and see through the BS and do a job to the highest standard with the dedication to the task to get from A to B as quickly as possible, no flowery language and no farming of the wicket. Its all about respect for the job you are doing.
Hopefully everyone finds the time this Christmas to get away from the prolific musings regarding the NPPF 2024, the clatter of big wigs trying have their voice heard over footnote 63, step back have a pint of bitter and a cheese and onion cob and think, that is exactly what I’ll be doing this afternoon at the Brown Boots Town Planning Christmas do. We do things different here.
Have a good Christmas and New Year and give me a call if you require my services in the new year for simply straightforward advice on subjects which are made unnecessarily difficult by people who believe they are brighter than you.
I leave with a link to The Game Echo and the Bunnymen, we are all in the game and the game continues in 2025.
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This is a classic example of a dressing room culture establishing the standards required. A room full of leaders. Anyone new has to perform to those exacting standards. 80% of all performance is based on that culture. Those world class players at the time were on low incomes and as he says were on trial. Nowadays there are players on 50-100k per month that havent even kicked a ball for the first team. You need to apparently also consider thier mental states. Is it therefore a surprise that Man Utd are way off. How many leaders actually at any team like before? If you reward mediocrity that is all you will ever get.
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