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12 August, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

New Boy

When somebody new starts working with you, how do they know how to do it right? What is included in their training? Do they have a “buddy”? Are they moved around different jobs? Who says they are competent? Does what you think should happen happen?  How do you know? Image by Ed Yourdon

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: business process management, recruitment, training

Black Men can’t Swim

12 August, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

How many Olympic class black swimmers can you think of?  Eric Moussambani? There is an evolutionary theory for this: White people have evolved to live in cold climates, so have a layer of subcutaneous fat to keep them warm.  This also aids buoyancy.  Black people on the other hand carry less fat and tend to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: best practice, capability, Olympics, video

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

12 August, 2010 by James Lawther 2 Comments

In The Wall Street Journal cyclist Floyd Landis talks about cheating in the Tour de France. Most remarkable of the litany of allegations is that blood transfusions were performed in buses parked on remote alpine passes, but the list goes on and on. It is amazing the lengths people will go to to win if […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: motivation, tampering, targets, video

Point Scoring or Progress?

12 August, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico continues. President Obama has repeatedly lashed out at BP.  He is looking for “some ass to kick.“ Not to be outdone on the PR stakes, BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward has spent $50 million on advertising, telling the US how he will “make this right.” Given all […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: communication, motivation, video

Tony Hayward

12 July, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Has been sacked.  (With a year’s salary and a pension of £600,000 p.a. BP are welcome to sack me as well). Does sacking Tony help clear up the mess in the Gulf? I imagine he knows more about it than most people and I guess he is a capable person, you don’t get to run […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: fessing up, political intervention, supply and demand, video

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