A story that I picked up via Twitter had me scratching my head. It’s the story of the the Salz review that was requested by the Barclays board following their fine for Libor rigging. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22012261#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter What I find particularly perplexing is the comment from Barclays…
Projects tend to be given names, as do project teams, in fact finding an appropriate name is one of the best ways to get a project group to start to think and operate like a team. The name matters, possibly more than we realise. Esteem…
I’m just reading issue 67 of Start Your Business magazine. page 14: 48% of firms buying technology they are not certain they need. 74% believe that implementing technology has not freed-up sufficient staff time to raise their company’s innovation or scope to be raised. 48%…
In what seems like a past life I would occassionaly be involved in “team building activities”. I did not enjoy these events. “now remember, there’s no I in team”. “I” know there isn’t, and yet, I surely there is. Do the ego and id, and…
Later this year I will be teaching an international post graduate cohort about managing creative teams. This is challenging and has already led me to do a lot of research and pondering. Much more to come I’m sure. One of the avenues of pondering has…
This morning on the news I was following the story about the report into the treatment of old people in hospitals. Some of the findings are truely shocking. This led to me and my partner discussing the issues and of our own recent experiences with…
The words “business process” used inside any sentence really do run the risk of causing most people to glaze over. It really does sound dull, geeky and boring. Most of the language associate with it also has the same effect, efficiency, effectiveness, productivity, swim lane…
When I first heard someone use that expression to describe the culture of the company that I was working in I thought “that’s absolutely right” and it neatly summed up why I was so frustrated. My efforts to make improvements often fell on very fallow…
What happens when your infrastructure takes a knock? When you find that something fundamental to you, something that you rely on without really thinking too much about it is suddenly not available any more. The first thing that happens is that you suddenly realise that…
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