Whilst having a rare flick through the FT the other day, we happened across a book review for “Managing to Learn Using The A3 Management Process to Solve Problems, Gain Agreement, Mentor, and Lead” by John Shook. Not the most enticing of titles! However, the FT article was entitled “The Toyota mindset revealed”, which got [...]
… are yours worth catching? (Great line that we’ve seen attributed to Aussie cricket great, Steve Waugh, but I’m sure it came from somewhere else first!).Actually, do you even know your attitudes? If you’re not fully aware of those attitudes, then you’re probably not realising how you’re infecting people around you! When the conditions around [...]
Viktor Frankl (author of the great book, Man’s Search for Meaning) observed that “where there is a why, you can endure almost any how”… deep words… but very true.So, have a look around you. We’re in pretty tough times, and the people who have a “why”, either a personal why, team why or organisational why, [...]
We like Simon Barnes in the Times quite a lot. Bloody clever bloke and he’s welcome on PlanetK2 any time he likes! His latest musings on the role of confidence in the current financial climate take a break from his usual expert stuff on sport and nature notes, but he’s on the money again. He [...]