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…
When I came across the concept of tame and wicked problems it was a real revelation. As soon as the concept had been articulated, I got it because it was so blindingly obvious. What I didn’t really get, was why it had taken so long…
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…
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.
” A key challenge for organisations in today’s world is to succeed in balancing two parallel, competing imperatives:”
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…
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