The workplace screams at you It is alive with data and facts and evidence. Our organisations are giant test beds. They will tell you what works, and what doesn’t. The evidence will show you where things are going wrong, and why. So if you want to improve performance just look and listen to the work. But […]
Evidence Based Management
This is a guest post Management is not a profession… It isn’t like medicine, engineering or law; it is a state in which we live. Sometimes it is formal — perhaps a promotion at work. Sometimes it is informal — circumstances force us to organise things. Remember when you could no longer do everything yourself? There are no legal, […]
What Gets Measured Gets Done
You show me how I will be measured… … And I will show you how I will behave We all know it’s true. There is scientific evidence to prove it. If you set someone a goal they will try to hit it. It is so effective that measurement and target setting have become the number 1 […]
Can You See The Future?
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 […]
What is Your Management Blindside?
An education is a wonderful thing Every year in the UK 16-year-olds study for their General Certificates of Education (G.C.S.E’s.). And every year the the Government publishes the results. This is how they have changed: I did my GCSE’s (or something similar) in 1984. I am an old (and as you can extrapolate from the chart) […]
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