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Do You Know Where You Are Going?

22 March, 2016 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Unifying Purpose

Stating the bleeding obvious… When I was in my 20’s I went on a course.  The instructor put up a slide.  It looked like this: His point was simple.  To be successful create alignment.  Make sure everybody is pulling in the same direction.  It was such an obvious point that I wondered why on earth […]

Filed Under: Blog, Wild Cards Tagged With: human nature, organisation, purpose

When Does Real Learning Happen?

9 March, 2016 by Tanmay Vora 3 Comments

Learning… The real learning, happens when: You are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external rewards You ask more questions to get to the why of things — and then to what and how When you look for process and patterns in discrete situations And when you use your understanding to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: human nature, learning

Half Full or Half Empty

23 January, 2016 by James Lawther 6 Comments

half full or half empty

Which are you? I was talking to a rugby player yesterday. I don’t like sporting analogies much; just because you can run 100 meters faster than anybody else doesn’t make you a great manager.  But he told me a fascinating story about coaching… An odd approach His best coach had a strange post match strategy. When […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, human nature, management style, motivation

Solutioneering

29 December, 2015 by James Lawther 1 Comment

solutioneering: səˈluːʃ(ə)nɪərɪŋ/ noun attempting to solve a problem or deal with a difficult situation without understanding it the branch of management concerned with embedding the latest management thinking as fast as possible a mechanism of creating activity that gives the appearance of progress without developing forward motion a field of study concerned with characterising a problem by […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bad process, group think, human nature, ignorance, management style, solutioneering

Busy Doing Nothing

13 December, 2015 by James Lawther 4 Comments

I am a busy man An executive with a burgeoning inbox — or so I tell my wife. This week I… Wrote presentations Prepared for audits Attend stakeholder briefings Drafted investment proposals Wrote appraisals Reviewed budgets Socialised information Reorganised departments Hired new staff Brainstormed solutions Talked about customers Discussed automation strategies Visited suppliers Defined new […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: bureaucracy, human nature, management style, purpose, video, wasted intellect

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