Organisational Change There are a couple of ways an organisation can improve: 1. It can change its strategy A company can change what it does. This type of change is sometimes called a “stroke of the pen change”, because any chief executive can, with enough money, make it happen. It could be a change in product […]
To Be or To Do
A talented man John Richard Boyd was a fighter pilot in the U.S. Airforce. He served in World War Two, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. He was a more than capable pilot. He attended the most prestigious fighter pilot school in the U.S. He graduated top of his class and was asked to […]
Pointless Conversations
Management meetings Do you ever lose the will to live in management meetings? Sometimes they are so bad I want to scoop out my eyeballs with a tea-spoon. I’d do anything to get out of the conversation. I hate futile meetings that are a waste of everybody’s time — usually highly paid people’s time. Here […]
The Pirate School of Management
I think Mrs Lawther has a crush on Johnny Depp I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. If I have seen it once I have seen it twenty times… My 10-year-old daughter loves watching it My 15-year-old daughter loves watching it Even my wife loves watching it… I suspect that they enjoy it for very […]
The World’s Most Toxic Culture?
Organisational culture If you have been reading this blog for a while you will have noticed that I am a caught in a repeating loop. The human equivalent of a stuck record. I write about organisational improvement. There are lots of fascinating advances in technology, management thinking and other whiz-bang solutions that I could pontificate […]
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