How useful is your data? Data comes in all shapes and sizes, you could classify it in a hundred and one different ways: categorical, ordinal, Boolean, composite … Here a couple of the less technically challenging – read eye-rollingly dull – categories: Opinion or Observation Opinions are what people think, so opinions are important. Some argue […]
A Management Fable
Frank and the Spanner In the Midlands there is a factory. They make bits, which fit into other bits, which eventually find their way into washing machines and lawn mowers. It is a grimy old factory that bumps along the bottom of the industrial supply chain, just about making enough money to keep its doors […]
Strengths and Weaknesses
Harry was not a well man He was in a terrible state of health. Cancer had eaten away at his digestive tract, it was so bad that surgeons had removed three-quarters of his stomach. He was constantly in and out of hospital, surviving on a diet of caffeine, nicotine and blood transfusions. A friend’s daughter […]
The Problem with Solutions
Clever management phrases When I was a graduate trainee I had a manager who loved to say: “Do not come to me with problems, come with solutions” He believed it was a clever and motivational sort of thing to say. It would make me more creative, I would start to think ahead and develop my own solutions, and — […]
Management Beliefs
Do you believe in self-help? One of my favourite quotes is from Henry Ford: Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right Personally I am all for a bit of self belief, but does it work for organisations as well as people? Does belief have a place in business? In 1974 […]
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