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 […]
Messy by Tim Harford — Book Review
What is it about? According to the author, Tim Harford, Messy “celebrates the benefits that messiness has in our lives: why it’s important, why we resist it, and why we should embrace it instead”. According to Maria Konnikova’s New York Times review, “a less catchy, but perhaps more accurate, title for the book would be […]
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 […]
Better to Be Approximately Right Than Precisely Wrong
Spurious accuracy Thirty years ago I sat in a factory office with my head bowed low, looking at the dirty grey lino floor. My boss, a middle-aged, overweight man wearing a white coat smeared with ice-cream was berating me in a broad west country accent. Apparently I was wasting both my time and his. I […]
Management Experiments and Idle Gits
A glamorous life The company I work for has offices in: Cambridgeshire Essex Greater Manchester Merseyside Sussex Tyne and Wear Yorkshire As an ops guy I get to visit them all. If I am lucky I get invited to London to talk strategy as well. I spend my life on a train. Being part of […]
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