Dissent can be Good

When everyone on the board or committee agrees on a course of action it’s often assumed to be the correct one; after all, everyone aggrees with it.  But is it the best?

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Grow from the Bottom, Kill from the Top

Personnel at the work face are the key to organisational success; management is the key to organisational failure.  Good management is critical to quality but management’s ability to ensure success is limited by the staff who work on the front line.

I want to tell you a story…

This may seem obvious when pointed out but I’ve found that few people realise it otherwise – we all like stories.  As children we start off learning by experiencing the world but, once we start to understand language, our ability to learn accelerates and we soak up stories.

Rules and Sanctions

Rules are usually of limited value unless considered alongside corresponding sanctions.  Sanctions?  Yes, else why would anyone comply with the rules?

FMEA – What If?

FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is one of those things most people do without actually realising it, albeit often in an informal and unstructured manner.  What could possibly go wrong?

SWOT that PEST

Many people are familiar with SWOT analyses, whether for a business or a person (the latter being a component of some professional CPD schemes), but fewer are familiar with PEST.

Gods of Management

I’ve previously written about Charles Handy’s cultural models (see here) but omitted to reference the Greek gods that he attributed to them.