Is management by wandering around a good thing? I was talking to a friend of mine today. He used to work for the Royal Navy. He navigated ships in his 20’s. Apparently getting H.M.S. Ocean around the Isle of White and into the Solent without sinking some fool in a yacht is no mean feat. Particularly […]
Assumptions Kill Creativity
The population of India is well over 1.2 billion people. Second only to China in size. Roughly a quarter of that population can’t read or write. Or, depending on who, how and when you count, there are something like 300 million illiterate people in India. This is a problem that is worth fixing. But how? Teaching 300 million […]
Quantity Versus Quality
Conventional management wisdom: You can have quality or quantity but you can’t have both. Bang ’em out quick Sod the quality, feel the width Cost, quality, speed ~ pick any 2 Even the Romans knew this was the case. It is quality rather than quantity that matters ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca So if you want […]
The 5 Sins of Management
Deadly diseases In 1982 W. Edwards Deming wrote about the 5 deadly diseases that inflict most organisations: Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short-term profits Evaluation of performance Mobility of management Running a company on visible figures alone Are we still infected? 30 years on have we found a cure? Have a look at the slide […]
If You Must Write on Your Slides…
Legibility You may have done the most comprehensive piece of analysis known to mankind. You might have discovered the secret to untold wealth, health and happiness. However… All the analysis in the world is worthless if nobody understands it and acts. So it doesn’t matter which font, image, graphic, table or chart you are using in your […]
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