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What Everyone Ought to Know About Numbers

18 May, 2013 by James Lawther 5 Comments

The news is full of numbers; startling headlines containing big scary numbers. Two Billion Dementia Patients Sudden Cardiac Deaths Rise by 10% in Young Americans Police Privatisation: ‘£5 Million Could Be Wasted’ Are those numbers really big?  Politicians love to create a stir and news paper owners pay journalists to shock.  Those big numbers they […]

Filed Under: Blog, Operations Analysis Tagged With: measurement, pareto principle, video

Are You Cruel to Your Children?

15 May, 2013 by James Lawther 6 Comments

I tore into my 10 year-old-daughter yesterday. It wasn’t a half-baked telling off. It was a full on balling out. I was so angry, I must have screamed at her for 10 minutes. The poor little mite was in floods of tears by the time I finished.  She sobbed for half an hour. Why was I […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: capability, confidence, management style, targets, training, video, W. Edwards Deming

Are Your Team High Performers or Losers?

11 May, 2013 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Pygmalion effect

What do you think of the team you manage?  Are they the crème de la crème or a shower of … Is that a rather harsh question?  Perhaps, but the answer may well have a lot more to do with you than with them. Why do some people do better than others? In 1968 Rosenthal and […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: beliefs, employee performance measures, management style, pygmalion effect, reinforcing behaviour, Robert Rosenthal

Does Money Motivate Employees?

6 May, 2013 by James Lawther 10 Comments

Does Money Motivate Employees?

Money, Motivation and Monkeys We have all heard that “money doesn’t motivate”.  I’m not sure I totally agree.  If you can’t afford your weekly food bill then I suspect that making money comes high on your list, but I guess we pass that point fairly quickly. What I do believe is true though is that money can de-motivate. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: cheating, Daniel Pink, human nature, motivation, video

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

4 May, 2013 by Antonio Ferraro 4 Comments

Tortoise

This is a guest post by Antonio Ferraro Everybody wants quick wins and big results Most people want to make quick and easy changes that yield big results. Who doesn’t want something quicker, easier, and cheaper? We are no longer satisfied with mediocre results. Not that long ago we were content with dial-up internet. Dial-up […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: continuous improvement, waste

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