Can you motivate someone? The gurus tell me that you can’t. You can’t give your staff motivation. It is not within your gift. Motivation is intrinsic, it comes from within. It isn’t something you can hand out with a carrot or a stick. You can make somebody do something, but you can’t motivate them, not […]
Ever Been Motivated by a Poster?
Imagine you make fish fingers for a living… Don’t laugh, it is a tough job I used to do it, I smelled awful after an 8 hour night shift cutting up blocks of frozen cod. The icy, sleety, wind from the North Sea was a positive boon when I walked out of the plant 6 in […]
Adult Fun
This is hard work Writing a blog is no picnic It takes research; I have to read to get new ideas It is tedious; how do you get a single idea down to a clear concise point? It is boring; editing, editing and re-editing — particularly with my penchant for typos Ideas don’t suddenly materialise […]
Is it Five O’Clock Yet?
It’s Friday. The weekend is nearly upon us, be honest, work is not uppermost on your mind at this precise moment in time. So to help you slide into the weekend here are 5 articles you really should read. Think of it as management education… Not wasting your time surfing the web. 1. Can Japanese […]
Stupid and Painful
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 […]
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