Posts Tagged with ‘goals’
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Day-dreams win over one track goal-orientation
05 Dec 2010Goal orientation is over-rated if not downright dangerous. I can't live without my dreams ~ more to the point, they can't live without me! They break back in to an overly busy routine :)
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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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Time for some evidence-based management in UK
17 May 2010Time to subject the target and box-ticking culture of UK to some evidence-based trials? Psychologists would say so.
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Tell us a good story . . .but not an anecdote
18 Apr 2010Narratives are better than goals I was talking today with @dominiccampbell and he helped me resolve another question that has…
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Noobes shouldn't be on the front line until they can do it with 'no hands'
14 Apr 2010The dreaded western customer service job Yesterday, I had to sit around offices a bit and I watched two people…
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Have three things to do. No more. It's hard.
03 Mar 2010Three goals, only At any one time in my life I have three goals. Only. For example, when I ran…
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Don't achieve your goals! Enjoy them. They'll be gone far too soon!
05 Dec 2009I Want Rhythm Not A To Do List When I was young, I loved To Do lists. What a buzz!…
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Shift gears before Christmas with Inpowr
27 Nov 2009New beginnings and getting going I’m shifting gear a little with projects. Some tasks are moving to the perfunctory box…
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Want efficiency? Make the space and time for people to be efficient.
12 Nov 2009Chain-of-command Imagine 6 000 students gathering in a hall and becoming a little rowdy. The police arrive. The local Chief…
