We all have two tasks: The first task is to do the work: to answer customer queries, lay electric cables or to drill holes and fill teeth. The first task is your day job, whatever you do for a living. The second task is to do that day job better: to reduce downtime, remove obstacles […]
Pointless Conversations
Management meetings Do you ever lose the will to live in management meetings? Sometimes they are so bad I want to scoop out my eyeballs with a tea-spoon. I’d do anything to get out of the conversation. I hate futile meetings that are a waste of everybody’s time — usually highly paid people’s time. Here […]
Penny Wise Pound Foolish
Economies of scale For a while I worked in an organisation that obsessed about costs. Everybody had a target to cut the costs that they managed. If everybody reduced their costs then the total cost would go down. Or so the logic went. The cost of printing There was a man who owned the stationary budget: paper, […]
The Productivity Equation
We all want more productivity… The world abounds with productivity experts of one sort or another: Outsource this Streamline that Squeeze the other We obsess about reducing our cost base. Taking out heads and slashing expense. But we are missing a trick? How do you define productivity? Using a little advanced algebra (if I say so myself), […]
How to Sink a Ship
Come at once. We have struck a berg. It’s a CQD, old man You have heard this story On the 15th April 1912 the Titanic sank on her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York. Whilst steaming at high-speed through an area of pack ice she hit an iceberg and broke in two. Over fifteen […]
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