TED Talk Rory Sutherland Rory Sutherland points out that big, strategic, expensive initiatives don’t always work. There are a myriad of small projects that are just as powerful. Although big important people like big important projects, the money that they throw about is often wasted. Rory urges us to figure out what the small inexpensive […]
Build a Tower Build a Team
TED Talk Tom Wujec This is a talk about a powerful little game with some far-reaching implications. It challenges the way we manage and implement projects. First Tom Wujec shows how we get caught up in a management world of plans, priorities and proposals. Then he demonstrates how much more effective we could be if […]
Trial, Error and the God Complex
TED Talk Tim Harford The “God Complex” is the overwhelming belief that, no matter how complicated the problem, we are infallibly right in our solution. Economist and journalist Tim Harford explains why we are deluding ourself and shows us the only problem solving technique that is guaranteed to work. It’s the Second World War. A German prison […]
What Are You Missing?
I have to manage your expectations It is a horrible phrase. I hate it when somebody says to me. It means that I am not going to get what I want when I want it. I am being softened up. There is going to be a delay. Suddenly I am thrown into the cost or […]
Do You Work for Super Chicken?
Performance management and chickens William Muir is an evolutionary biologist who studies chickens and productivity. Productivity is something that a lot of chicken farmers (and most of the rest of us) want. Productivity in chickens is easy to measure. You count the number of eggs the chickens produce — if only it was that easy in […]