Denis Barnard

The OGWO Team are having a sabbatical, and will be working to produce the next 10 topic commentaries….be back again soon…till then, stay “as mad as Hell, and don’t take it any more”!! OGWO

When through neglect, incompetence, stupidity or downright laziness an organisation manages to oversee the killing of a child who should have been protected; an innocent citizen is slaughtered by a homicidal maniac out on bail; when a million extra “unforecasted” migrants arrive like locusts and eat up all the public services budgets; when we find [...]

How many hours are spent in compiling organisation charts? Impossible to compute – but they certainly are legion.What more self-gratification can there be in seeing one’s name and job title at the top of the familiar graphic pyramid, even though it may be merely the section of the organisation that arranges shredding of confidential records? [...]

Located an uncomfortable 10 minutes’ walk in the rain, snow or scorching summer sun from any Tube (Subway) Station or bus stop, the Group Headquarters are, nevertheless, a effortless 15 minute lounge for the Chairman being ferried in the company limo, from his weekday apartment in the Barbican – or was it London Docklands? Designed [...]

I want to work when I want to. Any objections my employer may have are unreasonable. I didn’t make the rule that work had to be done 9-5, 5 days a week.That annualised hours idea is a good one, it means I can go to the gym, have lunch with my mates and raise a [...]

The OGWO Team are having a short break – back after Easter….

  ogwo© Overcharging for overdrafts? Or overseas mobile telephone calls? Are your food products stuffed with salt, sugar, E numbers, or your phone-in programmes a scam? Does your Board enjoy huge bonuses even though the business performs badly? Did your maintenance men not check the points properly or replace that old worn-out track? Never fear [...]

ogwo© It starts as an idea in the Marketing Department, usually as a result of seeing what the competition are doing; you know, coming back from the ‘Varsity Match with a whizzy golf umbrella bedizended on top with some appalling logo. Browsing through the Corporate Gifts brochure inspires more ideas, and suddenly we have a [...]

ogwo© If you want to know what is happening in your company, and the best way to make it more efficient, who should you ask? Certainly not the Board of Directors, who have their bonuses, Remuneration Committee, Corporate Governance and their golf handicap to occupy their time. Not the other company employees either; after all, [...]

ogwo© In the mists of corporate time, someone must have produced a calculation that justified the Chairman having a chauffeur. Well, not his own personal chauffeur the Chairman will protest; the driver is there to do any Company driving services, even down to delivering legal documents in to the city. Quite why a five-litre six-figure [...]