Tag Archives: thinking not tools

Fedoras and other hallmarks of failure

Posted on November 23, 2014 by

Have you noticed the HUGE amount of men in their 20s and 30s who wear Fedoras? A fedora is a hat that Humphrey Bogart or Indiana Jones wears. However the typical fedora wearer these days looks more like this… As Urban Dictionary … Continue reading →

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Curry by default

Posted on June 19, 2014 by

Yes, you heard, don’t act shocked.

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101 tactics for revolutionaries

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

You say you want a revolution, well you know we all want to change the world. John Lennon sang that, now I’m writing this. 101 tactics for low level, cubicle-dwelling systems thinkers. You’ve had the strategy, now here are your … Continue reading →

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Great Minds Tuesday

Posted on October 16, 2012 by

“Great minds talk about ideas Average minds talk about events Small minds talk about people.” – Eleanor Roosevelt Your task today at work is to see the ideas and thinking that lie behind Tuesday 16th October 2012 and avoid the … Continue reading →

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Ooooohhh Matron!

Posted on August 16, 2012 by

  Quick! This patient is haemorrhaging fast! We need to get him to the Lean Project Room! Nurse, 30 mils of Takttime and VSM intravenous! Intubate and bag him! He’s going AS-IS!

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Magic Goggles

Posted on April 10, 2012 by

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”. You’ve probably come across this quote, not thinking it applied to you and people like you. When you think of it you probably nod indulgently, imagining some kind of tribesmen cowering beneath … Continue reading →

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Documents ‘Я’ Us

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

Remember when I had a gas leak? Click above, or read it below in 66 dull words. My gas meter was exchanged for a newer gas meter, a few days later there was a lingering strong smell of gas, I … Continue reading →

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Everything you could possibly need to know about Six Sigma

Posted on March 28, 2012 by

What a six sigma black belt sees when he looks in the mirror…. What a six sigma black belt probably looks like… EDIT: The point I am cack-handidly trying to make is nicking the idea of “black-belt” from martial arts … Continue reading →

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Change thinking

Posted on March 13, 2012 by

“Things do not change; we change” Henry David Thoreau

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Who’s trained the system?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

A colleague is leaving and is clearing their desk and cupboards of decades of training manuals, never used, as the training was never used. It is like unearthing the last few decades of training fads that have plagued the public sector. … Continue reading →

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3 reasons why job descriptions are phooey

Posted on March 6, 2012 by

Silly. Un-needed. Harmful at times. They not worth the paper they are written on.   The paper they are written on Read on for why!

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I too used to be a toolhead

Posted on November 4, 2011 by

I genuinely understand the attraction, I used to be one too. But it’s all just bells and whistles.  When you strip it all away, tool-led approaches are just old fashioned command and control, as new fangled as the Audit Commission with a … Continue reading →

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Command and control makes me sick

Posted on October 28, 2011 by

And you. And everyone around you. That’s a SCIENTIFIC FACT.

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Myths about Systems Thinking

Posted on October 27, 2011 by

Myth: Systems Thinking is only applicable in areas where a spot of process improvement would be just the ticket.

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