Shifting the burden Lord I have had a bad day! I knew it was going to be a bad day when my diary showed I was stuck in back to back meetings for eight hours on the trot. Worse still, those meetings had been shrunk to 30 minutes each. That way I could have […]
Short Breaks Will Kill You
Quantitative or Qualitative Analysis? An apocryphal tale… A statistician working for a large organisation was asked to explain why sick pay was increasing. The business had an ageing workforce and sickness levels were rising. He gathered lots of data on lots of things: Working patterns Demographics Employment related illnesses Commuting times Office locations… The list […]
Blame or Solutions?
Blame is natural The minute something goes wrong we seek out somebody to blame. Somebody to take the rap. It is human nature to find a fall guy when things go belly up. Blame is easy We live in a connected world. We work within a mesh of colleagues, customers and suppliers, so there are […]
The Two Faces of Accountability
Accountability When things go wrong there is a simple solution. Politicians do it, journalists do it, managers do it and even my children do it. When things go wrong we search for somebody to blame “hold accountable”. It’s in our nature. Fortunately it is more nuanced than that. There are two ways we can […]
4 Ways to Solve a Problem
An apocryphal story: A man you know is hungry. There are 4 ways you could solve his problem: Slap him about a bit. This will take his mind of it. Hunger gone, problem solved. Give him a fish to eat. Hunger gone, problem solved. Give him a fishing rod and show them how to fish. Hunger gone, problem solved. Develop a […]
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