Conventional management wisdom: You can have quality or quantity but you can’t have both. Bang ’em out quick Sod the quality, feel the width Cost, quality, speed ~ pick any 2 Even the Romans knew this was the case. It is quality rather than quantity that matters ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca So if you want […]
The 5 Sins of Management
Deadly diseases In 1982 W. Edwards Deming wrote about the 5 deadly diseases that inflict most organisations: Lack of constancy of purpose Emphasis on short-term profits Evaluation of performance Mobility of management Running a company on visible figures alone Are we still infected? 30 years on have we found a cure? Have a look at the slide […]
If You Must Write on Your Slides…
Legibility You may have done the most comprehensive piece of analysis known to mankind. You might have discovered the secret to untold wealth, health and happiness. However… All the analysis in the world is worthless if nobody understands it and acts. So it doesn’t matter which font, image, graphic, table or chart you are using in your […]
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 […]
Top Secret Information
Knowledge is power We talk a lot about big data; it is the new thing, the magic bullet that will solve all your organisational woes. No matter what your problem… the solution is in the data. This is the information age. We are knowledge workers and knowledge is power. Data is an asset, we should […]
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