Wasting half an hour watching QI yesterday ended up giving me an insight that was probably unintended. For reasons that I don’t remember the topic of management consultants came up and Stephen Fry made the comment that more of them should be killed. I don’t…
I was a student in the UK, I graduated in 1982. I trained as a fine art painter. I can still remember the conversations about money obsessed people who understood the cost of everything and the value of nothing. They were passionate, political, personally challenging…
“Define for me a crisis and I will tell you if there is a crisis” I’m not much of a football fan, but I know a lot of people who are. I am however very interested in the way that businesses are run, and in…
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…
It may sound like a cliche to say that you are only as strong as your weakest link. But a couple of experiences that I have just had have made me realise just how true this old cliche still is. This morning I experienced what…
If you’re interested in magic (the conjouring kind) and the inner workings of the brain, then I can recommend a book called Sleights of Mind. It’s a popular science type book by a bunch of braniac neuroscientists. Although it gives away some secrets of magic…
I recently mentioned a poor teaching experience that I had been unfortunate enough to pay good money to subject myself to. In the interests of satisfying my curiosity I decided to write to the approving body to ask if the teaching met their standards. I…
Feedback is valuable to a business. At least it should be. So what’s its cost, and what’s it worth investing to get it? The reason that this is an interesting topic for me at the moment is that I recently spent a week attending a…
What a great question. If only we could be brave enough to risk asking it. And then, once we ask, and we find some answer, what can we, and more importantly, what will do about it?
A well executed bad idea. What a waste of resource!
A poorly executed good idea. What a waste of opportunity!
Academic research and experience tell me that there is such a thing as the “knowing – doing” gap.
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