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SJ Hay

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People and Process

Overcoming Resistance

15 August 202112 January 2021

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

Categories People and Process, Quality, Change and Improvement Tags emotional wellbeing, mental health, mindset

Career Development Planning in Corporate Services

15 August 20213 November 2019

  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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Corporate / Shared Services, Grow, People and Process

Silos and the Importance of Career Planning

15 August 20213 November 2019

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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Corporate / Shared Services, People and Process, Reap

Do We Repair or Do We Build?

15 August 20218 October 2019

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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Grow, People and Process, Strategy, Growth and Development Tags build, engagement, management, productivity, repair

Uncertainty and Productivity

15 August 202112 September 2019

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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Grow, People and Process, Process, Productivity and Outsourcing Tags engagement, management, productivity, trust, uncertainty

Productivity and Emotional Balance

15 August 202129 August 2019

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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Grow, People and Process, Process, Productivity and Outsourcing Tags engagement, management, productivity, trust

Trust and Interference

15 August 20215 August 2019

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

Categories A Man for All Seasons, Consultants, Coaches and Advisors, Grow, People and Process Tags engagement, management, productivity, trust

Social Consequences of Firm-level Automation

15 November 202130 March 2016

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

Categories Process, Productivity and Outsourcing

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