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Views not my own
I buggered up again, it’s not here, it’s there. I will be manually correcting my blogs stats at the end of the month to ensure there are no double-counting. In the meanwhile, here is a picture of a cat...
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Thank you for shopping at PeopleRus!
Why do you shop at Argos? What matters to you? Is it the sterling customer service? The hand tooled exquisitely crafted customer service? Or the cheap prices, no searching for goods and a very quick...
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Views not my own
“ALL CONTENT IS MY OPINION AND NOTHING SHOULD BE INTERPRETED AS BEING ENDORSED BY MY EMPLOYER. THIS IS A PERSONAL BLOG.” “Views my own, not employers” “Tweeting in a personal capacity only, not in a...
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A strategy amuse-bouche
Thinking dominates all. There is nothing more strategic than changing the way management think. In fact if it doesn’t change the thinking, it’s not strategic.
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Burn the witch!
There’s an unread book sitting on my bookshelf that I’ve dipped in and out of when passing, and read some extraordinary statements like these: “Killing people is too superficial” “Compliments are...
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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
ROLL UP! ROLL UP! Get your untested management assumptions here! People don’t like to think they’ve been made fools of. So they don’t think they’ve been made fools of, even when they have. And...
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What’s the greatest thing?
Read that text above. Then without looking back at it write down the answers to the following: (or say out loud, I don’t care) the name of the inventor of sliced bread? the name of the brand of bread?...
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Do you pretend to do pretend work?
Is this work? No, it’s art. It’s the minimum wage machine! The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. Turning the crank will yield one penny every 4.97 seconds, for $7.25 an hour...
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The Schleswig-Holstein Question
Here is a test, a maxim and a principle to guide you on your way. 1: The Dick Gregory Better Mousetrap test “When you’ve got something really good, you don’t have to force it on people. They will steal...
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How to be Topp
“You don’t eat to be “the best” taster the world, don’t take a stroll to be “the best” stroller in the world, don’t push buttons in an elevator to be the best button pusher in the world. So if you …...
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The astronaut answers
Remember this? The correct answer is……it falls to the ground. The answers you gave are below. 70% of you are correct! Well done! There is gravity on the moon, it is just weaker than on earth as the...
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A load of old cobblers
Who’s got the mankiest shoes? Cobblers! They spend so much time mending other people’s shoes that they have no time to mend their own. There is a “humorous” saying in large organisations that HR have...
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3 things you will never find on a lessons learned report
In Prince2 it is best practice to conduct a Lessons Learned Exercise for the Lessons Learned Log to go into the Lessons Learned Report. I find it is much more useful to conduct a Lessons Not Learned...
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The curse of positivity
I don’t mind optimism. I love joy-in-work. Fun is down right enjoyable. But I can’t stand positivity. I reserve a special place in my systems thinking Hell for the use of the word “positive” to...
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Why listening beats questions 6 ways to Sunday
Q: What is the difference between asking questions and listening? A: One isn’t the same as the other, and neither is both. Yesterday I was taking my turn, as a good natured Policy Officer, asking staff...
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Goodbye ICT, you’re already dead
There was a ruckus earlier between me and ICT. There was an “engagement exercise” where they came to my floor on a specific day and time, for us to “see how they work” and for them to give us “tips …...
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6 things Local Government gets wrong about you
1: It thinks you care most about big projects Name several things you care about your Council doing right. It might be making sure the roads aren’t full of pot-holes. Or keeping your street free of...
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Don’t hire experts
So I went to buy a bicycle. The man who served me looked like this. This is a character called Yehuda Moon from a cult internet cartoon strip. The character works in a bike shop. The man who served me...
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Why I care about systems thinking
If I worked in a real job I mightn’t care, as I’d have the job to care about so I might never have got interested. But I don’t, so I did. My job is promoting and implementing an incorrect theory. …...
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