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It's not a behavioural problem: it's the system
Reblogged from quantum shifting: Don't ask a systems thinker for advice on managing performance or staff engagement. They will probably say something pretty fruity and you'll wind up frustrated by how...
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Underlying Assumptions
Reblogged from Bulldozer00's Blog: The underlying assumptions harbored by executive decision-makers drive an org's processes/policies. And those processes/policies influence an org's social and...
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Peter Picked a Peck of Profound Purpose
Reblogged from Think Different: Peter Picked a Peck of Profound Purpose The one key thing that most clearly separates typical organisations from their more effective cousins is purpose. Not just having...
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The curious incident of the folder that doesn’t exist
From a drop of water,” said the writer, “a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. So all life is a great chain, the nature of...
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Purposeful parts
Organisms and organisations are systems that usually have purposes of their own. However, the parts of an organism (i.e., hearts, lungs, brain) do not have purposes of their own, but the parts of an...
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Indecent Proposals
Reblogged from Peter Cook's Musings - The Music of Business: Desperate times make people do desperate things and this week I've produced a roundup of strange and bizarre business practices that stand...
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Food Hygiene - a Systems Thinking case study
Reblogged from 95:5: Background The client is a city and metropolitan borough with a population of 249,470 (2011 census). The Council’s Food Safety Service has always performed highly against criteria...
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Infamous
Reblogged from Enterprise Thinking: Have you ever seen a program or show by Derren Brown? If so, you might believe magic does exist in some real sense. What he does during a show is nothing short of...
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The 3 minute purpose test
Reblogged from systemsthinkingforgirls: Use this test to find out if your organisation has a purpose. Materials A roll of plain wallpaper, big pens and the ability to draw a donkey. Method Step 1 Stand...
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monitoring performance to death
Reblogged from Becoming Better: In economics opting for the middle ground is usually best. But in this case, the extremes seem to be a better choice: monitor hard, or do not monitor at all. A little...
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T.b.c.
“Whatever plan of action we adopt in our attempt to remake the world, our usual first step it to pin a laudatory label on what we are doing. We may call it development, cure, correction, improvement,...
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Skyrides, and suppressed demand
Reblogged from As Easy As Riding A Bike: Going on a Skyride is a curious experience for someone interested in increasing the use of bicycles as a mode of transport; both uplifting and dispiriting in...
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Regressing to the Mean
Reblogged from Jim's a keeper: This fall for the first time in five years I don’t have a team to coach. Long story. So I thought I should use the time to write, with busy coaches in mind. Write stuff …...
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Does it matter that you know you have a BS job?
Reblogged from knittingfog: Following several long and thoughtful motorway journeys which indulged my tendency to over-think everything currently wrong in my life, and the prescient publication of this...
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The Ridiculously Obvious
Originally posted on Bulldozer00's Blog:Over the years, I don’t know how many times I’ve heard smug, self-important consultants and coaches spout things like: “If your org doesn’t do what I say and/or...
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“Truly wonderful the mind of a child is.” Yoda
Originally posted on teachanana:I have shared this on twitter, but I thought I’d write the full conversation down as a blog to show the student honesty at it’s most wonderful. Our school has advertised...
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If You Haven’t Worked a Day in Your Life, You Probably Don’t Love Anything
Originally posted on The Indisputable Dirt:You’ve heard it before, the beloved aphorism from the ever-intriguing Confucius; “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”...
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iWasher
This is my washing machine These are the two settings I use on the washing machine. The first… The second… And these are all the other settings on the washing machine that I don’t use… This washing...
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Pick Your Path
Originally posted on Bulldozer00's Blog:Make a measurement, one measurement, of any personal metric you might fancy… right now. Next, plot your sample point on a graph where time is the independent...
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Is this How Jobcentres Operate? Beyond Belief Barely Covers it…..
Originally posted on Ipswich Unemployed Action.:From written Parliamentary Evidence just out (Hat tip NB). ? John Longden –Personal Adviser A Statement on events witnessed by me at Salford Jobcentre...
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