The Five Habits of Highly Passive People
A business colleague told me recently that she thought I was the ‘passive and calm’ type. I didn’t like it. I didn’t like it one bit. True, she hadn’t known me for very long and her observations of me were all within one limited situation. But she’s an astute and experienced person, so I took her comments seriously enough to warrant reflection. Why didn’t I like it? ...
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Another day, another down-beat headline about education. ‘Schools told to improve or close’ screams the BBC headline. ‘Almost one in five secondary schools in England is to be given a warning to improve exam results or face closure.’ This comes hot on the heels of the latest controversies surrounding the introduction of Diplomas to replace/supplement (no-one seems to know which)...
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