Tom's 5-Minute Friday Podcast
142 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago -Tom is an expert in wilful blindness, ethical fading, and the building of trust in Public Services. He shares his experiences and stories as a former public sector manager and Whistleblower and highlights the need for radical change in the way our public services are run. Tom is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and author of Lions, Liars, Donkeys and Penguins - The Killing of Alison. The book is a true story about the suicide of his sister Alison following a period of abuse in an NHS mental health hospital.
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Episodes
Edward de Bono's Missing Hat
February 02, 2024 11:29 - 5 minutes - 5.48 MBWhy I think it's the most important one and what colour it might be... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Have your say on the state of leadership in the NHS...
January 26, 2024 12:24 - 5 minutes - 4.78 MBThe Department of Health and Social Care is seeking views on the role of leadership in the NHS; don't be shy! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Understanding must trump forgiveness
January 19, 2024 11:02 - 8 minutes - 7.97 MBBefore we can forgive one another we have to understand one another. Emma Goldman --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Dog Shit Sniffers -
January 12, 2024 12:57 - 5 minutes - 5.18 MBAcademics and theorists might know what it smells like, but they've never had their faces pushed into it. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
From Us and Them, to We...
December 22, 2023 12:05 - 5 minutes - 5.08 MBYou won't lie on your deathbed and remember the Apple Watch you didn't get for Christmas. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Understanding over forgiveness
December 15, 2023 12:54 - 9 minutes - 8.4 MBBefore we can forgive one another we have to understand one another. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
You can't legislate for character.
December 08, 2023 15:29 - 6 minutes - 5.58 MBThe government's decision on the Hillsborough Law is disappointing if not unexpected. But it wouldn't have solved the problem. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
These things called democracy and free speech
December 01, 2023 12:30 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MB...can we please stop being so sensitive and British? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Politics, what the hell are we going to do with it?
November 24, 2023 12:31 - 6 minutes - 6.14 MBJeremy Hunt is telling stories of tax cuts while public services are on their knees! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Is it really enough to say, "I wrote a letter to senior managers"?
November 17, 2023 16:26 - 5 minutes - 4.73 MBThe lionizing of Dr. Ravi Jayaram seems a little strange to me. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
I won't be wearing a poppy this year...
November 10, 2023 12:28 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MBMy actions throughout the entire year are my tribute to the fallen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Confirmation and belief bias, the source of much angst...
November 03, 2023 12:45 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBWe look for information that will support our beliefs, we tend not to look for evidence that we might be wrong. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Is it time to talk, or to acknowledge the issues facing us?
October 27, 2023 11:58 - 5 minutes - 4.89 MBTalk has become a surrogate for change and for the ambition to change. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
You used to have to hold a licence to own a dog...
October 20, 2023 14:23 - 5 minutes - 5.26 MBMandatory training for public sector leaders. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
If a tree is chopped down at Sycamore Gap and nobody hears it...
September 29, 2023 11:27 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBThe bias of Distance Decay and the things we concern ourselves with. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Can a man who is warm understand a man who is cold? (no)
September 23, 2023 09:51 - 5 minutes - 5.07 MBThe views of academics are not the insights of those with experience... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Is a safe space the same as an acquiescent echo chamber?
September 15, 2023 15:58 - 6 minutes - 5.82 MBOr a place where what people feel needs to be said can be said without fear? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The twin levers of improvement are control and choice...
September 08, 2023 10:57 - 5 minutes - 5.24 MB...so let's give communities control of their health and care services. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Leadership in the NHS...
September 01, 2023 11:52 - 6 minutes - 6.08 MB...leave your brains in a jar and hang your balls on the coat hooks provided. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Lucy Letby and the role of leaders and managers...
August 25, 2023 10:37 - 5 minutes - 5.2 MBYou can't control the uncontrollable, but there is no excuse for not controlling what you can. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
No Wealth But Life - What's Gone Wrong with Healthcare in Britain and How We Can Save the NHS...
August 11, 2023 10:22 - 6 minutes - 5.78 MBPublic Health and the Ambulance Down in the Valley --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Carswell has floated like a toxic turd that refuses to sink, across the Atlantic...
August 04, 2023 11:36 - 8 minutes - 7.95 MBThe IYI's (Intellectual Yet Idiot) are to be mocked, but to be feared even more. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
No Wealth But Life, thank you...
July 28, 2023 11:46 - 5 minutes - 5.28 MBThank you to everyone who has made time to feedback their views on my book, it means a lot to me :-) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
No Wealth But Life...
July 07, 2023 11:51 - 5 minutes - 5.11 MBConversations about Britain's healthcare have to be conversations about society. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The six men, the elephant, and the consultant...
June 16, 2023 11:34 - 5 minutes - 4.83 MBAn industry of think tanks and advisors. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings...
June 09, 2023 13:09 - 5 minutes - 5.01 MBThere is no wealth, but life. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
A lady called Rachel...
May 19, 2023 11:33 - 6 minutes - 5.6 MBSometimes a thing just needs doing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
It's International Nurses Day today...
May 12, 2023 12:19 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MB...the NHS needs to start valuing them and listening to them. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Born on the 05th May, one day late for the force to be with her...
May 05, 2023 08:37 - 5 minutes - 4.79 MB...today would have been my sister Alison's 57th birthday. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
No Wealth, But Life
April 28, 2023 11:57 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBWhat’s Gone Wrong with Healthcare in Britain, and What We Need to Do to Save the NHS... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Rory Sutherland and someone called Tom Bell (who's he?)
April 21, 2023 11:11 - 5 minutes - 4.81 MBCome and join us for what promises to be a fascinating and informative free event on Wednesday 03rd May at 6pm... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Safe in whose hands?
April 14, 2023 11:28 - 5 minutes - 5.14 MBOur health and care are too important to be left in the hands of politicians and panjandrums... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The value is in the journey...
March 31, 2023 11:54 - 6 minutes - 5.91 MBWe may not achieve the things we set out to achieve, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have tried. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
We only fail when we don't try...
March 24, 2023 12:35 - 5 minutes - 5.37 MBI lost the fight of my life this week. But it would feel a whole lot worse if I hadn't even stepped into the ring. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Thirty years of real hurt...
March 17, 2023 10:24 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MB...the final hurdle to secure a fresh inquest for Alison is on Tuesday 21st March; here's hoping! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Norway, Neoliberalism, and Kintsugi...
March 10, 2023 11:13 - 6 minutes - 5.65 MB...and why closure is not really a thing. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Let's be more French and Scandinavian...
March 03, 2023 11:35 - 5 minutes - 5.38 MBAt what point should we put our heads above the parapet? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The Law of Triviality...
February 24, 2023 12:43 - 4 minutes - 4.43 MBJust in case you need five minutes away from that important thing you're doing... --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Can I just wake up on the 21st March, please?
February 17, 2023 12:53 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBThe High Court beckons, nothing has prepared me to reach the end of my journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
A bit of good news this week...
February 03, 2023 12:48 - 5 minutes - 5.27 MB...and why the NHS can't learn from its mistakes. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Everyone's a great actor, it's just a bad play...
January 20, 2023 11:42 - 5 minutes - 4.93 MBThe current debate about the NHS and the state of healthcare will not be addressed by those who've allowed it to happen. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
If Carlsberg did healthcare...
January 13, 2023 11:59 - 5 minutes - 5.1 MBHow have we allowed our health and care system to reach this point? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The NHS is in crisis, it has been for some time, and it was entirely predictable...
January 06, 2023 12:04 - 6 minutes - 5.64 MBAs it approaches its 75th Birthday, let's have a conversation about our National Health Service. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, let your heart be light...
December 23, 2022 12:19 - 5 minutes - 5.42 MBA Christmas podcast for those who are not easily offended. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The issues that occur today are the result of yesterdays decisions and acts...
December 16, 2022 11:20 - 5 minutes - 4.94 MBIf excellence is the result of what we do in the next five minutes, then so are tragedy and harm. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The cost of wilful blindness...
December 09, 2022 12:29 - 5 minutes - 5.15 MB...it may seem like an abstract concept, but it's costing us all billions (and yes, that's billions with a B!) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
We had a national debate about our membership of the EU...
December 02, 2022 12:05 - 5 minutes - 5.05 MB...perhaps we should have one very soon about the future of our NHS? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
The world felt smaller than it has for quite some time this Monday...
November 25, 2022 12:01 - 5 minutes - 5.12 MBWill the arc of the moral universe ultimately bend towards justice, or is that just lazy thinking? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
A strategy on its own won't fix the NHS...
October 28, 2022 12:52 - 5 minutes - 5.52 MB...it's all about people, and what underpins their behaviors, actions, responses, and thinking. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message
Another avoidable NHS tragedy
October 21, 2022 11:20 - 5 minutes - 5.14 MBTragedy and harm emerge from the avoidance of constructive conflict. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cormetis/message