Blame Culture, Isolate the Problem, Not the Person At the Portuguese Grand Prix in 1991, Formula One racing provided a textbook example of why organisations should avoid a blame culture. Nigel Mansell, driving for the Williams-Renault team, was in first place as he pulled in for a pit stop. What should have been a slick […]
How Netflix Reinvented H.R.
Harvard Business Review Patty McCord It would be wrong to hold one group totally accountable for an organisation’s culture, but I think the good people in H.R. have a big part to play. They set the rules that employees live by. If I am right and H.R. has such a powerful role, why do most […]
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 […]
The Puzzle of Motivation
TED Talk Dan Pink Improving employee performance is as easy as 1, 2, 3: Write an objective Define a metric Provide an incentive Then set people off to hit the goal. It is just a question of building motivation. In his entertaining TED talk Dan Pink explains why this approach destroys motivation instead of creating […]
The Pirate School of Management
I think Mrs Lawther has a crush on Johnny Depp I watched Pirates of the Caribbean last night. If I have seen it once I have seen it twenty times… My 10-year-old daughter loves watching it My 15-year-old daughter loves watching it Even my wife loves watching it… I suspect that they enjoy it for very […]
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