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How to Win the F.A. Cup

30 May, 2014 by James Lawther 5 Comments

Football Manager

I don’t know much about football As a teenager I used to play in the school yard. When they picked teams I was always the last poor sod standing there. I was usually dismissed to the other team with a “Oh you have him“. I was fat I was slow I lacked talent (Keep your thoughts […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: accountability, blame, continuous improvement, management style, performance management, systems thinking, trust

Chelsea Tractors, Rapport and Process Improvement

27 May, 2014 by James Lawther 6 Comments

chelsea tractor

Process improvement should be easy You just stop doing the things a customer wouldn’t be happy to pay for. Spend a day with some brown paper and post it notes and you will find a whole host of ways to improve your processes. So why is it so hard? Because people don’t believe that their processes are […]

Filed Under: Blog, Process Improvement Tagged With: communication, continuous improvement, customer focus, human nature, management style, point optimisation

There Are 2 Types of Manager in the World, Which Are You?

11 May, 2014 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Henry Ford

Here is a great quote… Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right  ~ Henry Ford I’m going to adapt it… Whether you think they’re X, or you think they’re Y – you’re right ~ James Lawther Feel free to tweet that quote, it will do wonders for my ego, though […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: Douglas McGregor, management style, pygmalion effect, theory X and theory Y

Stupid and Painful

4 May, 2014 by James Lawther 6 Comments

Process improvement is about taking stupid stuff out I might just have said this before… It is not about adding more controls It is not about adding handoffs to specialist groups It is not about adding measures, checks and balances Process improvement is about taking out the stupid stuff.  Stupid stuff that gets in the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bad process, incentives, management style, motivation, over-processing

What Could a Lab Rat Teach You About Leadership?

13 April, 2014 by James Lawther 16 Comments

Self fulfilling prophecy

In the 1960’s a couple of scientists (Rosenthal and Frode) were busy trying to breed clever rodents.  To see if they had succeeded they ran some experiments with two strains of rats and a series of mazes: The first strain was “maze bright”, with parents and grand parents who were good at navigating mazes The […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: management style, motivation, pygmalion effect, reinforcing behaviour, Robert Rosenthal, stereotype

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