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About lawrence serewicz

An American living and working in the UK trying to understand the American idea and explain it to others. The views in this blog are my own for better or worse.

Stagflation is coming.

Posted on August 14, 2025 by lawrence serewicz

Stagflation is when an economy suffers from three problems at the same time: slow or no growth, high unemployment, and rising prices. The word is a combination of “stagnation” (meaning little or no economic growth) and “inflation” (meaning prices for … Continue reading →

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The coming collapse of Pete Hegseth

Posted on January 26, 2025 by lawrence serewicz

Pete Hegseth’s collapse is only a matter of time.  Pete Hegseth is Trump’s Secretary of Defense. He will lead the Department of Defense (DoD). Two things are clear. First, he was chosen for his loyalty to Trump. Trump wants him … Continue reading →

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How not to lead or manage a health crisis

Posted on March 14, 2020 by lawrence serewicz

Trump’s response to the health crisis is problematic. He has botched the four steps of a crisis response that Joshua M Sharfstein identified in his excellent book: The Public Health Crisis Survival Guide.[i] The four steps are: Identifying the crisis, … Continue reading →

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Raiders of the lost Ark is the story of GDPR preparations.

Posted on May 24, 2018 by lawrence serewicz

I was reflecting on GDPR preparations and it struck me that the best movie to explain GDPR preparations was Raiders of the Lost Ark. The film starts with Indiana Jones (our lowly DPA officers and the upstanding DPA consultants) trying … Continue reading →

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Apologies, the wrong article was posted to this blog

Posted on March 5, 2017 by lawrence serewicz

Dear Subscribers, I hope you are enjoying the blog. Please accept my apologies as the previous article was not a topic for this blog. I posted the wrong article to this blog. The intended home for the article was at … Continue reading →

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Why do you work for the Sun?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

For a number of years, people have campaigned against the Sun newspaper. The rallying cry is “Don’t buy the Sun”.[1] The movement emerged after the Sun’s infamous and defamatory headline.[2] The campaign has grown with the advent of social media. … Continue reading →

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If you work at Fox News, you enabled Roger Ailes

Posted on September 30, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

For 20 years, Roger Ailes ruled over Fox News like a personal fiefdom. He was in control and everyone knew it. If you did not do as he wanted, you would soon find that you were no longer needed. Even … Continue reading →

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Silence and the South Yorkshire Police

Posted on September 3, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

For 27 years, the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) were institutionally silent about their Hillsborough failures. For 27 years the officers maintained their silence. For 27 years, they fought hard to deny the truth. The issue was not a dispute over … Continue reading →

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Who was going to stop Roger Ailes?

Posted on August 22, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

In any organisation, the question is never “how did sexual harassment occur”, it is “who is going to stop it?” The organisation will not stop it unless someone stops him. The organisation as organisation will simply continue to function as … Continue reading →

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If the future of work is automation, what is the future of management?

Posted on August 12, 2016 by lawrence serewicz

I have been wrestling with this question for a few months. I have been interested in the way automation is changing work and what it means for the future of work. Some of my essays over the past years have … Continue reading →

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