This weekend I completed my 9th university ‘prospective entrant’ open day in two years. Obviously it’s not me that is the planning to go to University, although I have been tempted. That happened for me 30 years ago, when there were 100% grants and ‘free love’ (I lie about the free love). These were excursions […]
Denial and resistance versus self evaluation….. how to approach continuous improvement.
This is a tale of good and bad, a bit of a shocker. It’s all about denial, ignorance and resistance versus balance, self-evaluation and an effective approach to improvement. Let’s start with the bad…. After seeing Gemba Mat in action at Ricoh I was (ever so slightly over) enthusiastic and felt the need to tell […]
Alternative critera for choosing a University …… measure what matters most.
“Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count and everything that counts cannot necessarily be measured”. An Albert Einstein quote which eloquently sums up the problem with performance measures (and targets). I’ve been struggling with performance measures for ages and don’t think I’m any closer to being comfortable with them than I was about […]
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