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John Lewis - Never Knowingly Having Retail Experience.


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10 hours ago, Bedrag Justesen said:

“This appointment comes at a time where we are working hard to develop our people strategy,” partnership chair Sharon White said.

“Nikki’s impressive experience will help ensure the partnership continues to be a great place to work for current and future partners, that both rewards and develops partners, provides exceptional health and wellbeing support and improves our diversity and inclusion strategy, truly reflecting the communities we serve.”

 

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/07/john-lewis-partnership-hires-nikki-humphrey-as-new-people-exec-director/

Let them suffer.  Not a single mention of our climate emergency and where's the social justice in exclusively employing middle aged white people of privilege to better reflect the communities they serve?

PS:  Maybe too hard as they maybe at least trying to follow a Davos type agenda, in which case those government contacts could prove useful.

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So not just a house, but a John Lewis house.


If your retail business doesn't work then alter the business until retail works for you. Maybe they think council house people will furnish their new homes at John Lewis.

 

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The Masked Tulip

The City would love to privatise JL on the back of its reputation for quality. Expect a share floatation within 5 years if the company has not been completely destroyed by then.

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18 hours ago, Bedrag Justesen said:

“This appointment comes at a time where we are working hard to develop our people strategy,” partnership chair Sharon White said.

“Nikki’s impressive experience will help ensure the partnership continues to be a great place to work for current and future partners, that both rewards and develops partners, provides exceptional health and wellbeing support and improves our diversity and inclusion strategy, truly reflecting the communities we serve.”

 

https://www.retailgazette.co.uk/blog/2020/07/john-lewis-partnership-hires-nikki-humphrey-as-new-people-exec-director/

The communities you serve are a bunch of white boomers who are dying fast. So work out how to get as much of their triple-locked-cash out of them as fast as you can before you go down the toilet.  Do not waste millions "reaching out" to people who don't set foot in your stores and never will

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10 hours ago, spygirl said:

Andy Street was the MD of one of the larger stores.

The previous chairman was  an ex squaddy:

In 1992, Mayfield graduated from the Cranfield School of Management with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree.[11]

He joined SmithKline Beecham as assistant product manager of Instant Horlicks.[2] He was later promoted to Marketing Manager for the Lucozade sports drink brand.[12]

In 1996, he joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant.[1] During his time there, he worked with consumer and retail organisations.[13]

In 2000, he joined the John Lewis Partnership as head of business development.[14] He was appointed to the Board one year later as Development Director.[12] He was appointed managing director of John Lewis in 2005.[1] In 2007, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership.[15] In March 2007,[13] he became the fifth Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership.[1]

in November 2010, Mayfield was appointed to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, a non-departmental public body, as chairman.[13] This post dissolved in March 2017 with the closure of the Commission.

On 7 November 2018, Mayfield announced that he would be stepping down as Chairman of the John Lewis Partnership. He was succeeded by Sharon White at a meeting of the John Lewis Partnership Council on 4 February 2020.[16]

Posh squaddy, marketing manager then management consultant. All very brief appointment. Deadly. Total fuckup.

Blundered around for 10 years opening shops here there and everywhere without grasping that  only a few areas can support a JL. And the JL has to big.

One thing JL did was not fuckup online, like MnS. However, Id guess thats down to a large core of long serving middle managers. Shazza is laying these people off - because they are expensive.

I think the problem is that, after never being close, the world of the public and private sector is even further apart. Public sector might as well be from Mars.

It was bad enough that the public sector were poor at organising and adapting to new things esp. computers. The last 20 years have seen the public sector stop doing the little they do and become a large protest/campaiging group for whatever- blacks lesbians, cripples muzzers etc. All on high salary/pension cost.

 

 

Eh?

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24 minutes ago, The Generation Game said:

Eh?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Mayfield

Mayfield was born on 25 December 1966,[1][2] to Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Mayfield.[3][4] He was educated at Radley College, an independent boys school in Oxfordshire.[1][2] He followed in his father's footsteps and joined the military after leaving school rather than attending university.[5]

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Eyebrow raising short time in Army.

Mayfield graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1986, winning the Sword of Honour as the best cadet on his course.[4] On 12 April 1986, he was commissioned into the Scots Guards, British Army, as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 523391.[6] On 12 April 1988, he was promoted to lieutenant.[7] During his career he served in Northern Ireland amid The Troubles.[8] He was 19 when he was first posted there.[9]

He retired from the British Army on 30 September 1991.[10]

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10 hours ago, Option5 said:

Management strategy John Lewis.

 

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That gives a misleading image of middle managers -- the two dogs are effectively working together to move the stick, whereas...

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26 minutes ago, spygirl said:

Eyebrow raising short time in Army.

Mayfield graduated from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1986, winning the Sword of Honour as the best cadet on his course.[4] On 12 April 1986, he was commissioned into the Scots Guards, British Army, as a second lieutenant. He was given the service number 523391.[6] On 12 April 1988, he was promoted to lieutenant.[7] During his career he served in Northern Ireland amid The Troubles.[8] He was 19 when he was first posted there.[9]

He retired from the British Army on 30 September 1991.[10]

IMO officers that don't last until their late 30's were got rid of.

I'm always distrustful of ex-officers in management roles, particularly those who ended up as major or below.  Many of them do have experience of leadership, but it isn't always transferred easily to civilian life.  Far too often they seem to be knowledgeable of chapter 1 of 'management for dummies', but don't have advanced skills.  Beyond that, they too often like to have immediate underlings who do what they're told (by their 'senior officer'), and they like to give morale boosting speeches to the workers (and then get cross when said workers just shrug their shoulders in response).

 

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5 hours ago, stop_the_craziness said:

The communities you serve are a bunch of white boomers who are dying fast. So work out how to get as much of their triple-locked-cash out of them as fast as you can before you go down the toilet.  Do not waste millions "reaching out" to people who don't set foot in your stores and never will

Sharp.

To the bottom of the glass.

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On 04/08/2020 at 18:56, dgul said:

I'm always distrustful of ex-officers in management roles,

Yes. I like ex-naval of course. The army ones sometimes have something wrong with them , and RAF are gents.

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4 hours ago, Bedrag Justesen said:

Any news ?  :)

Wow, that’s a third of its workforce gone now.. 6 months left until Mike Ashley can purchase it for £2, £1 more than it’ll be worth, and trade on the name. 

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John Lewis's flagship £35million store in Birmingham will never reopen after closing during lockdown, says city's mayor as River Island reveals plans to axe 350 retailer workers

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8627431/River-Island-announces-slash-350-jobs-major-store-management-shake-up.html

On a positive, burka sales are booming...

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6 minutes ago, The Masked Tulip said:

I thought the Newcastle Sports Direct lot bought Debenhams.

IIRC Mike Ashley bought £10m of shares with an eye to a takeover and then they went into administration and he lost his money.

I don't think he'd risk anything again.

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