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For “Game Changing” Performance, Change the Game

13 November, 2017 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Game Changing

Game changing Everybody is hell-bent on moving quicker, faster and harder. Everybody wants “game changing” levels of performance improvement.  Managers, executives and shareholders demand it… So if you want “game changing”, what are your options? Three parts to an organisation The systems thinkers categorise organisations into three elements: The components. The team-members and functions, the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: purpose, systems thinking

Management Heresy

10 November, 2017 by James Lawther 2 Comments

Heresy — noun (ˈhɛrəsɪ ) An opinion or doctrine contrary to the beliefs of an organisation The act of maintaining such an opinion or doctrine An interesting word And an interesting activity. I often wonder about heretics. Are they a bunch of loony tunes who can’t see how wrong they are? Or are they perfectly […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: beliefs, conformity, human nature

Was My M.B.A. A Waste of Time?

30 October, 2017 by James Lawther 3 Comments

Thought Experiment

Collaboration For my sins I have an M.B.A.  I am a child of the ’70’s.  By the time I hit the ’90’s an M.B.A. was the qualification to have if you were intent on pursuing a corporate career. The course taught me all about the parts of big business.  I learnt about: Finance and accounting […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: best practice, collaboration, communication, culture, systems thinking

Changing the Rules

16 October, 2017 by James Lawther 2 Comments

All organisations have rules We have rules about expenses and rules about systems access.  There are rules about promotions and rules about mobile phones.  Still more rules about budgets and rules about supplier gifts. Organisations have hundreds of rules.  These rules, explicit or not, define the way our organisations work. The problem with rules If […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: command and control, systems thinking

The Strategic Comms Centre of Excellence

9 October, 2017 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Management Speak

Management Speak I reached out to my boss first thing this morning.  I had to square the circle about one of our strategic imperatives.  Fortunately he cascaded the relevant information.  He had the helicopter view, I was too busy searching for low hanging fruit. If there is one thing that is guaranteed to set me […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: communication, credibility, Dilbert, jargon

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