According to Aldous Huxley “Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness: it is generally the by-product of other activities.” I think he has a point. This got me thinking, how many different nouns could I substitute in the quote for “Happiness”? 1. Fun 2. Money 3. Love 4. Acceptance 5. Success … […]
Just How Bad Could It Be?
Yesterday I posted a comment about risk assessment and how it leads to some really stupid activity. This is not to say that risk assessment is a waste of time, just the over zealous, avoid risk at all costs type. This leads to the question “what does good risk assessment look like?” Rather than banging […]
Global Warming? Pah!
I am sitting in my office, slowly turning blue, looking at a good 4 inches of snow. I thought it was supposed to be getting warmer, the ice caps should be melting and half of East Anglia is going to be under water, yet here I am slowly freezing to death. Clearly the scientists are […]
No Way In
I found this picture on the “learning about lean” blog. It made me smile. This is an obvious case of mixed messages, but it isn’t just a problem for sign posts. Have you ever come across the same issue when you are filling in a form and wondered what on earth you are supposed to […]
What Can You See?
The manufacturing guys have a neat trick It is called an “Ohno circle”. They paint them on the floor at different points in factories and then the team leader stands in the circle with a clip board for 30 minutes, writing down everything that he can see that doesn’t work. He or she then spends […]