Centre for Business Performance
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management! – Part 4
This is the transcript of a radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. Americans: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the North to ...
How the energy market fails us all
"Anger as energy bills rise by 37%" That is the headline in the Telegraph this morning and we are now hearing a whole set of rhetoric about lack of competition in the energy market and ...
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management! – Part 3
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 ...
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management! – Part 2
“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 ...
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management!
“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. ...
Book Review – The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
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 ...