Category Archives: management

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 →

Posted in compliance, culture, learning organisation, management | Tagged hillsborough, Katie Hopkins, Rupert Murdoch, The sun, United Kingdom, Western world | Comments Off

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 →

Posted in creative destruction, culture, management | Tagged Algorithm, Artificial intelligence, Automation, Capital (economics), Computational fluid dynamics, Computer science, Facebook, innovation, management, Quantopian, The Wall Street Journal | Comments Off

An analysis of Jeff Bezos’s email to Amazon staff

Posted on August 24, 2015 by lawrence serewicz

The following is an analysis of Jeff Bezos’s email to his staff after a New York Times article criticized the company and its culture. The email reveals more about Bezos than he realizes. It is worth understanding the full extent … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Amazon.com, Darwinism, Dick Costolo, Jeff Bezos, Job Growth, Seattle, The New York Times, White House Press Secretary, White-collar worker | Comments Off

Thoughts on TRILCon15: The Privacy Arms Race

Posted on April 27, 2015 by lawrence serewicz

On the 21st of April, I attended the Trust Risk Information and the Law Conference 2015. It was by the Centre for Information Rights. The theme was the Privacy Arms Race. My blog on the previous conference can be found here.[1] A … Continue reading →

Posted in culture, customer service, management, privacy, transparency, Uncategorized | Tagged Facebook, Privacy, social media, technology, transparency, Twitter, wearable technology | Comments Off

The lies organisations tell themselves: the case of Rotherham Council

Posted on December 15, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

Every man has some [truths] which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Child protection, Child sexual abuse, England, Great Britain, Independent Police Complaints Commission, Member of Parliament, Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, Rotherham Council, South Yorkshire, South Yorkshire Police, United Kingdom | Comments Off

Is an organisation corrupt or just ill?

Posted on October 31, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

When we hear about a corrupt organisation we often are surprised and outraged. What we fail to consider is that all organisations are never completely healthy. They are all ill to some extent. They will have practices that are dubious, … Continue reading →

Posted in coruption, culture, leadership, management | Tagged Ethics, leadership, organisation, Senior management | 1 Comment

The Facebook experiment and the web’s ethical void

Posted on July 24, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

The Facebook Experiment has upset many people.[1] In the experiment, which was conducted in 2012, Facebook manipulated the timelines of some of its users. They filled it with good or bad news to study its effect on the user’s mood. … Continue reading →

Posted in compliance, learning organisation, management, privacy, Uncategorized | Tagged digital domain, ethical content, Ethics, Facebook, Facebook Experiment, Hans Kelsen, Law, Lawyer, Legal ethics, Nazi, Weimar Republic | Comments Off

How to write transparent investigation reports

Posted on June 5, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

In the age of Freedom of Information, public sector organisations, including the police, have to be prepared to respond to FOI requests for how they conduct investigations. For some organisations and some situations, the investigation report is made public such … Continue reading →

Posted in compliance, customer service, learning organisation, management, privacy | Tagged Business, criminal investigation, FOIA, Freedom of information, Freedom of Information Act, Freedom of information laws by country, investigation, investigation report, Question, United States | Comments Off

8 Steps to ensure your investigation does not appear to be a cover-up

Posted on June 3, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

This post has been removed as it has been superseded by the post How to write transparent investigation reports. I would like to thank Donna Boehme of the Compliance Strategists for comments on 8 Steps to ensure your investigation does … Continue reading →

Posted in compliance, coruption, information management, learning organisation, local government, management | Tagged Complaint, Freedom of information, investigation report, Organization, People, Terms of reference | Comments Off

Where do you discuss bad news?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by lawrence serewicz

In any organisation, you have to discuss bad news but few people consider where it is discussed. How you discuss bad news will influence, if not determine, the success of your company. The issue is more than critical upwards communication … Continue reading →

Posted in change, change managment, culture, leadership, learning organisation, management, renewal | Tagged Apple, bad news, Business, Company, Enron, management, Organization, Organizational culture, Senior management, senior managers | 2 Comments