Is management by wandering around a good thing? I was talking to a friend of mine today. He used to work for the Royal Navy. He navigated ships in his 20’s. Apparently getting H.M.S. Ocean around the Isle of White and into the Solent without sinking some fool in a yacht is no mean feat. Particularly […]
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 […]
Are You a Management Chicken or Egg?
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 […]
Teamwork
It is easy to set up a team… You take a bunch of people, put them in a room, give them a simple task and tell them to crack on with it. Setting up a team is easy. But teamwork is a different matter Teamwork needs: An understanding of strengths An admission of weaknesses Openness […]
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