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Ever feel like your business has kidnapped you, in the boot of your own car?
Symptoms may include: Feeling out of control No idea where it could all end up Loss of control, as the world around you dictate your actions and responses Immersed in the suffocating detail of your business Lack of time to … Continue reading
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Directorships are being mis-sold
I’m writing this piece as a layperson, reflecting on the position of Directors of all sizes of companies incorporated in the UK. I don’t hold myself out as a legal expert, nor do I sell Directors insurance, but I do … Continue reading
Is This The New Normal For 2015?
2015 is going to be different. It will be the first full year in a post recessionary era where only a small few feel a positive difference, despite the government recovery figures. Life for many is still as tough and … Continue reading
Do You Dare To Disagree?
I see your point, but if I agree we will both be wrong… Have you ever been to a business meeting, to be faced with some difficult decision or subject matter, and found that people agreed with one another because … Continue reading
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When “Six” Is Not Enough
For the last decade we have been taken through the learning curve of various initiatives whose names begin with “six” – from Hats to Sigma, and its assorted Lean variants. Following Deming’s original work in the 1960s and 70s, organisations … Continue reading
Pump Up Da Volume, or Change The Stuck Record?
If, as the politicians and newspapers would have us believe, we have emerged from the recession and that growth is finally back to give us good times again why is it that so many CEO’s I speak to, across all … Continue reading
Need a new way to manage your Organisation?
Need a new way to manage your Organisation? Benjamin Franklin (1706-90 in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, 1789, famously said; “‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” In today’s world people have added … Continue reading
Where Did “Management Jargon” Come From?
Where Did “Management Jargon” Come From? Management jargon began to explode about the same time as the beginning of the Business School”. It is based largely on seven key words: 1. Solve 2. Projects 3. Problems 4. Management 5. Results … Continue reading
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Supercharge your Lean Six Sigma programmes
You’ve engaged with Lean and maybe Six Sigma in an attempt to find and expose process issues and then to plan to fix them, thereby improving the Organisation. You may have had initial success, which has furthered your belief that this … Continue reading