It’s easy to see how striking workers have lost the plot sometimes, when seen from a commercial standpoint.
Yet if one considers how top management in the self-same organisations measure their benefits – and salaries – in millions, I believe there is another view.
In Jim Collins’s ground-breaking book “Good to Great”, he mentions how Nucor Steel [...]
We are probably all familiar with web, mail or file servers. These are computers with large storage capacity and the role of sharing information across a network, and backing up data, so as to avoid loss.
A server does not do everything. It enables knowledge-sharing across diverse levels of an organisation, without being precious about information. [...]
I have known for a while that we, as humans, ignore information that is constantly presented to us.
My son’s drawings, enshrined on our fridge, are memorable and delightful. They are also soon blocked out, unintentionally, for I see them a few times a day. This is the mind’s focus weapon at work. If we were [...]
Confronted with the magnificent artwork inherent in classic architecture, whether Indian, Chinese, Gothic or Renaissance, I recently found myself contemplating the back-ache Michelangelo must have earned whilst painting the magnificent Sistine Chapel. Even though it took four years, the more-than-1000 m2 section he completed is still widely held to be his crowning achievement in painting. [...]