Overcoming Resistance
Steven Pressfield, “The War of Art”; Elizabeth Gilbert, “Big Magic”; Julia Cameron, “The Artist’s Way”; all talk about the same thing – your Muse. Or, at least, being still enough and … Read more
People and Process
Career Development Planning in Corporate Services
Career development planning means different things to different people and there is a good chance you are thinking about moving into or out of Corporate Services. Counter-intuitive as it … Read more
Silos and the Importance of Career Planning
Silos emphasize the importance of career planning. Counter-intuitive but true. They frame our careers whether we like it or not. We choose our careers based on silos. So if you … Read more
Do We Repair or Do We Build?
Repairing things: cars, motorcycle engines, people, organisations is very different from building something from scratch. The mechanic or doctor, consultant or manager “deals with failure every day whereas the builder … Read more
Uncertainty and Productivity
A friend and I were talking about uncertainty and before it lurched to Heisenberg we discussed its relevance to management. Taleb’s “Antifragile” is a nice approach to uncertainty in “a … Read more
Productivity and Emotional Balance
Productivity in manufacturing is affected by Taiichi Ohno’s Seven Wastes: overproduction waiting transporting inappropriate processing unnecessary inventory unnecessary / excess motion defects The elimination of these wastes lies behind most … Read more
Trust and Interference
There is a lovely story about a young boy and a lost horse. One day a horse turned up on a farm. No-one knew from whence it came nor who … Read more
Social Consequences of Firm-level Automation
Digital disruption, driverless cars, process automation, robotics in the workplace. All symptoms of technological advancement and achievement and all to be hailed. But… Let’s have a look at the century … Read more