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3 ways to take advantage of luck

Posted in Management, tagged , , on November 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

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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On management

Posted in Management, tagged , , , on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

“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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Analysing the Toyota management disaster

Posted in Management, tagged , , , on October 24, 2011 | 1 Comment »

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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The downside of Japanese management styles

Posted in Management, tagged , , , , on October 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »

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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Getting Important Things Done

Posted in Management, Project management, tagged , , on September 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

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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Is it ‘good luck’ or ‘bad luck’?

Posted in Management, Process Improvement, tagged , , , , , on September 19, 2011 | 3 Comments »

There is an old Buddhist allegory about the relativity of ‘good’ and ‘bad’ luck: A wise farmer had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing this news, his neighbors came to visit him. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically. “Maybe,” the farmer replied. The next morning the horse [...]

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Leadership in meetings

Posted in Leadership, Management, Success Factors on September 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Tom Peters gives some great advice to Leaders: LEADING Through Meetings Find me a boss (or non-boss) who doesn’t constantly bitch about “too damn many meetings”—I’ve never found one. But here is the irreducible fact of “boss-world”: Meetings are what bosses do. There is no escape. And if that is true, then, also by definition, [...]

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Quick Wins versus Big Wins

Posted in Innovation, Management, tagged , , , on January 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »

LAST month I wrote about Kaizen versus innovation, and how neither is better than the other they are in fact two elements of the same thing. But in any project, whether kaizen problem solving initiative or a completely new innovation there is often a drive to deliver quick wins. Instead of focusing on quick wins, [...]

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The ‘x’ factor for consultants and project managers

Posted in Management, Project management, tagged , on November 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »

The single most important criteria for project managers and consultants is ‘objectivity.’ You don’t own the project or engagement, the client does. They own the results – good or bad. As soon as you become invested in the outcomes of the project, you become too involved. Like lawyers and doctors, who must be removed from [...]

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Lessons from the best

Posted in Leadership, Management, tagged , , on October 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I came across this email today from someone I trust: Finally, I thought I would share some advice and words of wisdom that I received recently from one of Australia’s leading and most experienced business leaders. The biggest lesson in business is that you never stop learning. Always be open to new ideas, to new [...]

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