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A Splendid Waste of Time

14 September, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

HMS Ocean

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: business process management, management by wandering around, management style, process mapping, work instructions

Adult Fun

16 August, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Fun at work

This is hard work Writing a blog is no picnic It takes research; I have to read to get new ideas It is tedious; how do you get a single idea down to a clear concise point? It is boring; editing, editing and re-editing — particularly with my penchant for typos Ideas don’t suddenly materialise […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: forced fun, motivation

Is it Five O’Clock Yet?

1 August, 2014 by James Lawther 2 Comments

5 o clock

It’s Friday.  The weekend is nearly upon us, be honest, work is not uppermost on your mind at this precise moment in time. So to help you slide into the weekend here are 5 articles you really should read.  Think of it as management education…  Not wasting your time surfing the web. 1.  Can Japanese […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, leadership, management style, motivation, performance management, targets, Toyota, wasted intellect

Are You a Management Chicken or Egg?

28 July, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Management Chicken

Boot Camp In the early 1980’s the Israeli army ran a combat command course. Every 15 weeks, one hundred trainee soldiers were allocated to one of four instructors and then, for  3 months, they received 16 hours of instructor / trainee contact every single day. I’d have never lasted in the army. The experiment Two psychologists […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: performance management, pygmalion effect

Teamwork

20 July, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Teamwork

It is easy to set up a team… You take a bunch of people, put them in a room, give them a simple task and tell them to crack on with it. Setting up a team is easy. But teamwork is a different matter Teamwork needs: An understanding of strengths An admission of weaknesses Openness […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: clarity, human nature, purpose, teamwork, trust

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