We’ve enlisted the help of Jim Hacker from that well-loved series “Yes, Minister“, along with his trusty Principal Private Secretary Bernard Wooley to make a point for us this week: Hacker: “Why can’t Ministers go ...

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink!” – goes the Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner as his ship lies lost in the Doldrums upon a wide and vast ocean. I wonder what he would ...

“Mirror, mirror on the wall whose presentation is the fairest of them all?” “GDP last quarter is higher than the previous quarter, and the same quarter last year”, says Kamal Ahmed of the BBC News. ...

If you have ever: Gambled – not just casino-style, but on a hunch, a business idea, a theory, a project etc. Interviewed for staff Negotiated anything from some money off at a store to a ...

"We’ve only held up 3 banks this month”, says Bonnie, “Clyde, our target this month was 5 – get your a**e into gear and hit another 2 before the 31st !”. “You’ve used the ‘Tube’ ...

Einstein is quoted as saying “The definition of insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result!”. I wonder if there is a converse quotation we can introduce, “Another definition ...

The first post on this subject was posted on 9th January, which, some readers reminded me, promised answers to the questions asked. It compared Financial Performance Management (500 years and more of history) with Operational ...

Jeremy Hunt was being interviewed on the radio Friday morning talking about wanting to deliver the best Healthcare System in the world. From a Systems-Thinking perspective, this would mean thinking about the way the public ...

Jeremy Clarkson wrote in the Sunday Times about the shambolic state of executive decision-making: “…decision makers these days ….won’t actually make a decision until they’re confident they’ll get the credit if everything goes well, and ...

“America first!”, says Donald Trump in his inauguration speech, exciting those who think this will create more jobs and strengthen the US economy. However, he doesn’t appear to understand that, in this context, the US ...