My daughter (11) has developed another irritating habit. Whenever you say something to her she replies “I know” Your sister needs help. — “I know” We are late for school — “I know” E = MC squared — “I know” The cat is on fire — “I know” Of course I explode. How can you possibly learn anything new if […]
Leadership and the God Problem
A little question In his book Good To Great, Jim Collins poses a small but very interesting question: What is the key to organisational excellence? Why do some businesses thrive whilst others bumble along at the most mediocre of levels? The answer is obvious… Leadership If you have an operations problem you need better leadership Profit problem – […]
Do You Have to Control Everything?
If there is one thing that upsets me… Really upsets me it is being controlled. Being told where I have to be, when I have to be there, what I need to do, which meeting I need to go to… I hate being controlled. Of course it cuts both ways. If I am hell-bent on […]
Stranger Danger
I play it safe On Thursday I spent all day in my boss’s team meeting. I am a lucky man, I work with people I like… We see the world the same way We laugh at the same jokes We bitch about the same people (admit it, you do too) We moan about the same problems […]
The Wrong Answer
Are your staff stupid? Have you ever asked them to do something so obvious that it simply wasn’t possible to misunderstand? A nice, easy job. Something they couldn’t fluff — if they only thought about it for two minutes — yet they still messed it up. Do they ever come back with completely the wrong […]
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