The Great Train Wreck of Twenty-Thirteen | Whitehall Watch

MMM Mother Shipton has risen me thinks

Whitehall watch once again delivers insightful comment

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Mental Models: Standardized Work and Performance Measures — Lean Blog

Mental Models: Standardized Work and Performance Measures — Lean Blog:

I Patrictularly like the following quote

“Metrics and measures are the voice of the process, to be used for improvement, not for blame, ranking, and punishment.”

How many times have colleagues been ranked and compared leading to punishment or even loss of their job. too many. Thanks to Lean Blog for reminding us.

Audit Commission abolished | News | Local Government Chronicle

Audit Commission abolished | News | Local Government Chronicle

According to the Eric Pickles the Audit Commision has lost its way and will be abolished, do you think that this it the right thing to happen?

doubling failure

I dont always like the stuff that comes out of HBR but this one is interesting, it covers the topic of why leaders should double their failure rate, I guess the gist of what is being said I agree with just how do we know that doubling failure will work ?

http://hbr.org/product/the-failure-tolerant-leader/an/R0208D-PDF-ENG?cm_mmc=email-_-newsletter-_-daily_stat-_-stat070110&referral=00204&utm_source=newsletter_daily_stat&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=stat070110

Advice Is Changing: Systems Thinking at work in Nottingham

A must watch for anyone wanting to understand how the quality of services can increase without adding costs .

Thanks to Advice Uk for turning the story into something very simple and straight forward to understand. Brilliant!!

CDO - I want to be Cheif Detail Officer

Rory Sutherland makes an excellent case to spend less and gain more!!

http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/880

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution! | Video on TED.com

RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

EBS Highly Commended

Well Done EBS for being Highly Commended in the CENE Awards http://www.cene.org.uk for transforming the way you deliver housing repairs.

My New Website

here here is my new website, check it out http://leansystemthinking.weebly.com/