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Insulting

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

The world is divided into two types of people. You are either a “Know It All”, been there, seen it, done it.  Understand everything and never change anything.  I am sure you know one. Alternatively you are an “Ask Hole”, the sort of person who keeps everybody in lessons late because they keep asking stupid […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: assumptions, continuous improvement, decisions

Bias

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

I have just read a blog post about the claimed link between autism and the MMR programme.   It is a fascinating read.  Despite the numerous surveys that have been undertaken to prove that there is no statistical basis for the claims, the writer still persists.  I guess that no amount of facts or data will […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: assumptions, constraints, dogmatism, learning, reinforcing behaviour, video

Evolutionary Pressure

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Outsourcing costs jobs right?  It is bad for the economy; exporting jobs to low wage countries. Well maybe not.  In an interesting economics paper John van Reenen of the LSE puts a different slant on it.  His view is that the increased imports from China and India have led to job losses in areas of […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: assumptions, capability, continuous improvement, outsourcing, supply and demand

Getting Away with Murder

12 May, 2010 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Chinese Police

A Chinese man, Zhao Zuohai, who was sentenced to death and spent 11 years behind bars for murder has been acquitted and given £65,000 compensation. In 1999 a neighbour he had fought with disappeared and a headless body was found.  Police assumed that the body was the neighbour’s and, under pressure to find the murderer, […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: assumptions, targets, Zhao Zuohai

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