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Morten T. Hansen talks about how to embrace and on a blog post at the HBR. He says to think about it from a zen point of view: Think of life as a flow of luck events. Imagine swimming in a river in which lucky events — good and bad — will flow your way [...]
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“A man should never be promoted to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths.” —Peter Drucker, The Practice of Management The top post on this blog, after the home page, is: “Top Ten Ways to Show Appreciation to Staff.”
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TOYOTA has been the bastion of quality, the benchmark for methodologies, and lauded for the management and leadership that got it there. The massive recall and quality problems came as a severe shock, not just to the market, but TPS, and LEAN zealots alike that who believed Toyota could do no wrong. An article in [...]
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ON THE Economist blog, Schumpeter, discusses the Japanese company Olympus who recently sacked their CEO after months 6 months on the job, highlighting the downside of the often lauded Japanese management styles (particularly in the context of Lean and TPS). “JAPANESE management has a reputation for insularity and conformity.” Schumpeter says, pointing out that, “Most [...]
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I came across this infographic yesterday which looks at some data on the major contributors to project success that organisations are employing. This rings true for me. Having just been part of a PIR (Project Implementation Review) in a large project I am consulting on. Some subjects I will be looking at in the coming [...]
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