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Success to the Successful

16 December, 2019 by James Lawther 6 Comments

When is your birthday? If you took everybody in the European Union and recorded the month of their birth, the split would look like this… The pattern is virtually flat. There are some interesting exceptions.  My wife’s birthday is the 28th February and her sister’s is the 5th March. I will leave the rest to […]

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

Brilliance Alone Won’t Take You Far

23 October, 2019 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The land grab In the 17th and 18th centuries the European superpowers; Britain, Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands were racing to conquer the world.  They were hell bent on colonising the Americas, Africa and Asia for themselves.  The Europeans were engage in a land grab of monumental proportions. The colonies were dependant on the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: collaboration, short term thinking, test and learn, trust, usability testing

Crazy People Get Bad Reviews

28 September, 2019 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Never hire a crazy person They can’t be trusted… They are unpredictable They see the world differently They go where others won’t go They don’t do what they are supposed to do You just can’t rely on a crazy person Crazy ideas In the late 1980’s a bunch of political activists had an idea.  They […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: diversity, group think, innovation

The Most Profitable Activity in the World

18 September, 2019 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Collaboration The iPhone is — arguably — the most profitable product in the world.  Since it was launched in 2007 it has sold over 700 million units.  In my household alone we have 4 of the damned things. I hasten to add my daughter’s phones are hand-me downs, but all the same. The iPhone 11 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: collaboration, command and control, communication, complexity, cost saving, supply chain, systems thinking

Are Your Human Resources an Asset or a Liability?

2 September, 2019 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Theory X or theory Y? In the 1950’s Douglas McGregor proposed theory X and theory Y.  He suggested that managers see their employees in one of two ways: Either — a cost that needs to be minimised and controlled Or — an asset that should be developed and valued It was an astute observation, but […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: Douglas McGregor, human resources, management style, research, theory X and theory Y

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