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Is it Five O’Clock Yet?

1 August, 2014 by James Lawther 2 Comments

5 o clock

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, leadership, management style, motivation, performance management, targets, Toyota, wasted intellect

Are You a Management Chicken or Egg?

28 July, 2014 by James Lawther 7 Comments

Management Chicken

Boot Camp In the early 1980’s the Israeli army ran a combat command course. Every 15 weeks, one hundred trainee soldiers were allocated to one of four instructors and then, for  3 months, they received 16 hours of instructor / trainee contact every single day. I’d have never lasted in the army. The experiment Two psychologists […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: performance management, pygmalion effect

Watch Your Back

17 July, 2014 by James Lawther 3 Comments

An apocryphal tale ~ a story of doubtful authenticity ~ There was a football tournament, a very important one, something a bit like the World Cup… The first match England played Italy.  The Italians won comfortably.  The English were left humiliated and strong action was demanded.  So the coach was fired, he was accountable, someone else was given […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: blame, learning, management style, performance management

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

How you Condemn your Staff to Failure

21 April, 2014 by James Lawther 4 Comments

Dunce

Rats and children are not so different They are similar in the way they behave: If you think a rat is clever, then the it will become clever If you think a child is clever then it will become clever as well Those might be scientifically proven facts, but proof and explanation are not the same […]

Filed Under: Blog, Employee Engagement Tagged With: motivation, performance management, pygmalion effect, Robert Rosenthal

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