The other day I was sent a report. It went a little like this… (The names have been changed to protect the guilty) World Class Performance It has been implied that our performance could be improved. All available data suggests that this cannot be the case Market Context We have the highest satisfaction […]
Scientific Proof – Politicians are Stupid
The power of belief Have you ever wondered why people hold onto their beliefs despite statistical proof that they are wrong? Is it that we don’t understand what the numbers are telling us? Or is it that we just chose to ignore them? Dan Kahan is the professor of Law and Politics at Yale University. […]
Management: Can You Have Too Much of a Good Thing?
Good management is a good thing and organisations have a shortage of “talent”. Having more and better managers is critical to success. So you should put all your effort into hiring and developing breadth and depth of leadership. Really, is more always more? In his book David and Goliath Malcolm Gladwell discusses school class sizes. Conventional […]
Are Tall People Better Managers?
We all have biases; things that we believe are true, that drive our decisions and actions. But those biases can be blind spots, so they may drive the wrong decisions and actions. The worst thing about biases is that we don’t realise that we have them, they are part of who we are. As the old […]
Word of the Week
The word of the week is skeuomorph. A skeuomorph is an item that retains old design features even though the reason for them has long since passed. The e-mail icon on your PC may well be an envelope, but the days of licking and sticking are gone. When my iPhone rings it sounds like a […]
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