This is a guest post Everyone loves a bench-marking exercise, right? It helps you understand your place in the world – where you excel, right? It shows you the gold standard, best practice, the benchmark you aspire to, right? Wrong. Bench-marking is honest and pure, so, what brings me to such a bold outburst? Well, there are a […]
What Everyone Ought to Know About Numbers
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 […]
Can You Have Too Much Information?
We live in a world of big data. We are all collecting information, compiling it and then trying to work out how to use it to our best advantage. So of course we want to see all the information available and then some, before a decision is made. The more information we have the happier […]
What do You Believe?
Belief (noun): an acceptance that something is true, usually without proof a strongly held opinion, something accepted as real or true a religious conviction We all have beliefs, things that we hold to be true, it is our way of making sense of the world. Our beliefs are usually based on something we have seen […]
Old Wives Tales and Conventional Wisdom
I spent Easter with my mother, siblings, their spouses and eight children. The weather was truly awful. I caught my daughter singing; “I’m dreaming of a white Easter”. In the bleak North of England it snowed on Good Friday. There are few things as unpleasant as 8 children running around a house screaming. So despite the weather […]
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