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21/1/2013

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Sir Ian McGeechan, four times Head Coach of rugby union Lions Tours, is a pretty inspirational speaker. Look him up on youtube and watch his speech as he sends the Lions out to “go for the jugular of the Springboks”, or the one where he bursts into tears afterwards. Stirring stuff. Bizarrely, in between such derring-do Ian was the HR director of an insurance company. I only know this because a friend was once a graduate trainee in his department.

Apparently, the HR team used to have a Monday morning “huddle”, and she said she'd burst out of the meeting like an adrenaline junkie, chewing the furniture, scrumming down against the coffee machine. The week was hers, its jugular already between her teeth. She bestrode the corporate world like a colossus. It was only about an hour later that she'd realise she was just vetting application forms again all week.       

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