You’ve probably heard of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, and seen the pyramid representing the five levels of human needs? You may also have seen the version for the internet generation? The one with WiFi scrawled at the bottom, as the most basic of human needs? You might even have re-tweeted the image (don’t worry, everyone […]
Changing Faces, Changing Audit, and what really motivates people.
In 160 posts over almost three years of blogging I’ve never explicitly mentioned where I work or what I do. It is partly deliberate. Saying you work for an audit organisation prompts interesting reactions. I was recently introduced at a conference using the 19th Century Sir Charles Lyell quote: “An auditor is a man who watches the […]
Royal Navy Field Gun. A lesson in incredible teamwork, motivation, commitment and missing fingers.
Back in about 1989 I went on a rugby tour to play against a Royal Navy Field Gun Team in Portsmouth. Some of our team (Whitchurch Hospital Cardiff RFC) were on sabbatical from the Royal Navy and gave the following stern advice the evening before the game, “watch out for the Field Gun players with […]
