Archive for July, 2010
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We will not put our lives on hold because you want us too
15 Jul 2010Zimbabwe kept going. But will UK? Countries and firms keep going but in spite of the management. It can be hard to get our head around and the results can be surprising. I tell three stories here. Two ~ I was part of. One ~ I am part of now.
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A personal view of the world is NOT the mark of a spoiled generation
13 Jul 2010The point is that a "personal" view of the world is not a mark of a spoiled generation. It is an essential skill and Gen Y has grasped its necessity, intuitively perhaps, but they have grasped it. We have to catch up.
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Save time (and cut costs) by spending as much time as you need with each person
12 Jul 2010It is counter-intuitive, I know, but taking the problems of each person seriously, for what they are, saves time. The arithmetic doesn't suggest it, but Year 6 arithmetic is the wrong analytical tool. It is also lousy psychology and lousy management theory.
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Ingratitude is sooner or later fatal to its author
09 Jul 2010Ingratitude will do you in . . . so says a Twi proverb. Gratitude is good for you . . . so says positive psychologists. To bring all the apparent paradoxes of positive psychology together, we need to learn some maths about planes rather than lines. Though not obviously connected, contemporary commentary on positive psychology hangs together when we listen to Mandelbrot and other mathematicians.
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My internal GPS uses faith, intuition and discipline every day to calculate my position
07 Jul 2010My internal GPS uses faith, intuition and discipline every day to calculate my position. What do faith, intuition and discipline mean to a psychologist brought up on competency-based interviewing?
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Cost-cutting is upside down and inside out
07 Jul 2010Cost cutting is the wrong way to go. Not because cost cutting is wrong. But controlling costs comes from identifying what is worthwhile and keeping score. Working in the opposite direction will take us into the proverbial drink, probably with a crocodile lurking in the shallows.
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Does crowd-sourcing work: InnoCentive and c,mm,n
04 Jul 2010Two contrasting examples of crowd-sourcing. BP's disengagement from InnoCentive. c,mm,n: the world's first open source car
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UK economy watch: Plastic Electronics
04 Jul 2010I thought I would start recording all the exciting bits of the economy. Cambridge has produced some of the exciting developments in organic electronics. Which has led to a new e-reader, btw. But my mood changed when I tried to find the details of the government awards and tried to subscribe by RSS feed. Hmm. . .
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Dance in any way you know how
04 Jul 2010An Indonesian though leader on appreciative inquiry and leadership greeted me this morning. I don't speak Indonesian, but I found an pertinent poem in English on his website to illustrate the difficult idea that we are our relationship with the world (difficult at least for Westerners).
