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Can You Buy Better?

10 November, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast

Organisational Change There are a couple of ways an organisation can improve: 1.  It can change its strategy A company can change what it does.  This type of change is sometimes called a “stroke of the pen change”, because any chief executive can, with enough money, make it happen. It could be a change in product […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: culture, management style, strategy

To Be or To Do

25 September, 2018 by James Lawther Leave a Comment

A talented man John Richard Boyd was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Airforce.  He served in World War Two, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was a more than capable pilot.  He attended the most prestigious fighter pilot school in the U.S.  He graduated top of his class and was asked to […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: authenticity, credibility, human nature, integrity, John Boyd, management style, pride in the job

Pointless Conversations

30 August, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: bureaucracy, command and control, cost saving, diversity, effective meetings, employee performance measures, forced fun, key performance indicators, management style, motivation, objective setting, office productivity, performance management, targets, waste, wasted intellect

The Pirate School of Management

21 August, 2018 by James Lawther 1 Comment

Pirate Management

I think Mrs Lawther has a crush on Johnny Depp I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. If I have seen it once I have seen it twenty times… My 10-year-old daughter loves watching it My 15-year-old daughter loves watching it Even my wife loves watching it… I suspect that they enjoy it for very […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: culture, employee ownership, incentives, management style, recruitment, video, workplace conditions

The World’s Most Toxic Culture?

5 July, 2018 by James Lawther 4 Comments

The Four Pests

Organisational culture If you have been reading this blog for a while you will have noticed that I am a caught in a repeating loop.  The human equivalent of a stuck record. I write about organisational improvement.  There are lots of fascinating advances in technology, management thinking and other whiz-bang solutions that I could pontificate […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, command and control, culture, human nature, incentives, management style, rhetoric, targets

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