How to cook a leg of lamb When my wife cooks a leg of lamb she asks me to cut off the last 7 inches – the shank. Cutting the last few inches off a leg of lamb is not easy. It requires a hack saw and good deal of gusto. By the time the […]
Open Cultures: Do They Create Mistakes?
Open cultures A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the sound of silence. I claimed that in the best run workplaces bosses are open to discussions about problems. They have a “no blame culture“. Fact or theory? Is there any data to support my claim? Or was I just running my mouth off? — Heaven […]
Do You Work for Super Chicken?
Performance management and chickens William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who studies chickens and productivity. Productivity is something that a lot of chicken farmers (and most of the rest of us) want. Productivity in chickens is easy to measure. You count the number of eggs the chickens produce — if only it was that easy in […]
The Sound of Silence
The worst thing a boss can hear is silence Silence from the shop floor. The sound of people who see things going wrong but then don’t speak up. People who don’t speak up because: They are scared of the repercussions They worry what people will say They don’t want to get labelled as being part of […]
Problem Solving – All Buck and No Bang
There are two ways to solve a problem: First order problem solving: Also known as the quick fix. This type of problem solving removes the issue. E.g. getting the information you need to finish a task. But it doesn’t do anything to stop the problem happening again. Fixing a problem this way often causes a […]
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