In praise of the goal On the 25th of May 1961, in a speech before the joint session of Congress, the President of the United States set his country a goal: This nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him […]
Jack of All Trades Master of Non
What makes a successful scientist? In the 1950’s, Bernice T. Eiduson started to wonder why some scientists had a greater impact than others. Some scientists produce insight after insight, racking up papers and prizes. Whilst others just plod along and never account for much. What makes some scientists more innovative than others? To find out, she picked a […]
The Clear Desk Policy
Busting management myths I love social psychology, it fascinates me. I particularly like experiments. It is one thing to put forward a theory about why people behave the way that they do; it is another thing altogether to prove it with some data. Let me give you an example, how should you set up an office? […]
A World Without Objectives
Objectives: could we manage without them? How would we cope? The guys in H.R. would throw up their hands in horror. We couldn’t rate our staff. Pay for performance would flounder. Annual appraisals would become a farce. We wouldn’t know what we were doing. How could we manage our businesses? But how do we manage with objectives? They just get […]
The Solution to Everything
Management is full of solutions… There is always another management solution. Something that we must invest in. Over the past 20 years or so the solutions I have seen include: Analytics Big Data Big Scale Value Analysis Customer Journey Mapping Customer Relationship Management Customer Satisfaction Measurement Business Process Re-engineering Business Process Outsourcing Near Shoring Off […]
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