When is your birthday? If you took everybody in the European Union and recorded the month of their birth, the split would look like this… The pattern is virtually flat. There are some interesting exceptions. My wife’s birthday is the 28th February and her sister’s is the 5th March. I will leave the rest to […]
Performance Management Best Practice
What is the best way to improve staff performance? There is an awful lot of performance management “best practice” out there. Lots of books, seminars, HR gurus and management consultants who tell you what to do and sell you a model. But which practice is the best practice? In 2002 the corporate leadership council decided […]
Management Beliefs
Do you believe in self-help? One of my favourite quotes is from Henry Ford: Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right Personally I am all for a bit of self belief, but does it work for organisations as well as people? Does belief have a place in business? In 1974 […]
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 […]
There Are 2 Types of Manager in the World, Which Are You?
Here is a great quote… Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right ~ Henry Ford I’m going to adapt it… Whether you think they’re X, or you think they’re Y – you’re right ~ James Lawther Feel free to tweet that quote, it will do wonders for my ego, though […]