Archives April 2021

Truth isn’t everything. Science isn’t all there is.

Please indulge me in getting deeply philosophical for a moment. I’m not trained to do so, but something I learned a couple of years ago, I forget where, changed how I see work.

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Huddled against the cold she peers out into the night. On a far distant hill, a tiny glimmering light of a fire. She squints until she is sure she has really seen it, and then runs down the track to tell the others

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Starting a new monthly service to curate our blog posts in a summary post. Please let Rob know on social media if you are using this., and how you would like to see it organised.

March 2021 was a quiet month, so our first summary is for the two months Feb-Mar.

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We are holding an Ask-Us-Anything, actually two, 12 hours apart, to serve the world.

May 5th 9am or 9pm GMT

We’d really love to see you there. We are experimenting with a new format (new for us): a watch party!

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“Cultural fit”: It is one of the hardest dilemmas in organisational  culture. You want people who fit in, and at the same time diversity. There may be definitions that accommodate both, but it is tricky.

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It all depends on how you define “faster”. Work should look relaxed, competent, in control, steady, leisurely even.
Results should usually come faster.

(c) Can Stock Photo Inc. / Smileus

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Understand the system.

There are two worldviews, depending on context.
In a bounded linear flow, a well behaved system, we can apply mechanistic thinking to analyse the system: ToC, Lean, Value Stream Mapping…
In a more general case, the world is VUCA. We can’t

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starting May 19, 2021, 0800 UTC

New Ways Of Consulting: how to consult in a world of new ways of working and managing.

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We get asked about whether we base our work on Lean or ToC, waterfall or Agile, Scrum or Kanban, cybernetics or something-or-other, Freud or Jung (well, almost) …. The answer is we don’t care.

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Drucker purportedly said “if you can’t measure it you can’t improve it” or “…manage it”. (If he did actually say them).
Any manager who is incapable without metrics is a terrible manager. You can drive a car without a dashboard.

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