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As the founder and CEO of the Core Solutions Group, I spend a great deal of time thinking and speaking about mediation, negotiation, conflict management, leadership and communication. I am told I should write some of these thoughts down… so, here goes…
Both the Public Service Reform and Finance and Public Administration Committees of the Scottish Parliament have made calls for views about “Pre-Budget Scrutiny for 2027-28” and the affordability and sustainability of Scotland’s tax and spending …
The “bill for public inquiries is now running at more than £230 million.” Are costs “out of control?” I was asked this question by Michael Marra, deputy convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration …
This is an expanded version of the article which appeared in The Times on 6 January. To address fully the challenges in the provision of health care and social care in Scotland, I sense that we …
To address fully the challenges in the provision of health care and social care in Scotland, we may need a paradigm shift. In other words, a fundamental change in our way of thinking about how …
“Beat your ploughshares into swords, and your pruning-hooks into spears”. Surely some mistake, I thought; shouldn’t it be the other way round? Swords into ploughshares and spears into pruning-hooks? It was during Evensong at the magnificent …
Back in the early 1980s, the Cold War was at its height. As we learned in the recent BBC series “Secrets and Spies: A Nuclear Game”, the world came perilously close to nuclear war in …
“They answered my questions with questions”. These lyrics, from a haunting song in 1976 by Manfred Mann’s Earth Band, remind us that the best way to answer a question is often by posing another in …
Giving evidence to the Scottish Covid Inquiry recently, Donald Macaskilll, chief executive of Scottish Care, said that the Crown Office investigation into the circumstances of care home deaths during the pandemic has “broken” staff in …
Dear First Minister A year ago, as you assumed office, I wrote to you, courtesy of these pages, offering suggestions from the field of conflict resolution which I hoped might assist you in navigating your daunting …
One of the difficulties which the Scottish Parliament has encountered is that legislation has on occasion been found, after passage through Parliament and in some cases implementation, to be in some way ineffective, inadequate or …
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