If you want to be successful you have to be focused That is a rather trite statement, but think about it for a second. The world is a big place. There is somebody out there somewhere who is doing exactly the same things as you are; they have the same gifts as you do. The […]
Measure Anything the Sesame Street Way
There are a lot of intangible things in life, things that affect the service that you are delivering and the business that you are running. Things that you would love to know, but are frankly just impossible to find out. How about these for a couple of examples: How effective are your managers? How […]
Management Reports, Horses and Camels
Design and big groups just don’t work. There’s the old joke about a camel being a horse that was designed by a committee. It’s no accident that the most successful aesthetic designs of even the most expensive and complex products normally come down to a handful of people at most. It’s the same with the […]
Are you Asking the Right Questions?
Google have been playing around with their data. They have found out that they can predict the likelihood of a flu outbreak in a particular geographical area. They do this by counting how many times people search for “flu” in that location. It seems that if a friend or relative goes down with a bad […]
The Deadly Cucumber
Germany has had one of its worst ever outbreaks of food poisoning. The cause was an outbreak of E. coli O104. It was bad, 2,400 people became ill and 23 people died. Initially it was thought that the infection came from organic cucumbers grown in Andalusia. In response, Germany’s health ministry told consumers to avoid […]
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