It's good to be accommodating. It helps make a reality of collaboration and getting a group of people working together. Sometimes though... We need to be demanding. Some roles involve directing an …
The Swiss cheese model of success
The Swiss cheese model is central to thinking about systemic failure. The idea is that each potential factor, which, when combined, could create a condition in which an accident could occur, is like a …
It’s not a question of whether you’re interested or not…
...it's a question of whether you need the knowledge. Sometimes we base our choice of what to learn about by what interests us, but actually to succeed in our goals, we need to learn about what's …
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Putting yourself out there to be judged
If we hope to have influence—to stimulate something better happening—we have to put ourselves out there to be judged. If we don't, nobody will know we have anything to offer and nothing different …
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Is the status quo better funded?
Inertia is usually better resourced than change—better staffed, better financed, and better organised. It's usually easier to get paid to do something that reinforces the status quo than it is to do …
In making plans for work…
...it is sometimes necessary to take into account the actions of other people. It was a week of Winston Churchill quotes last week, though not, in fact, this one: "In making plans for war, it is …