Centre for Business Performance
Politics, Thai Queens and Leadership
Listening to a discussion about Theresa May’s leadership style on this morning’s Today programme made me think about some of the organisations I have worked in – and also a story I heard whilst on ...
The Use of Best Practice – the Well-trodden Path to Mediocrity?
This is likely to be controversial, so I look forward to any (evidence-based) comments readers may have that counter my colleagues’ and customers’ observations on the use of Best Practice (or Best Value, or Best ...
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management! – Part 6/6
Courtesy of Dilbert (Scott Adams 08 May 2008). Does it seem like Performance Reporting is using numbers that you can’t understand, can’t work out where they came from or are just plain different from the ...
Benefits of Performance Reporting
David Anker has been blogging about the shortfalls of performance reporting. His argument is that performance reporting isn’t performance management, an argument I wholeheartedly agree with. However, performance reporting is not without its merits. Below ...
Cranfield School of Management’s 50th Anniversary and 50 years of management
http://www.cranfieldsom50.com/ Maury Peiperl’s recent blog about the origins of the school in a work study group back in 1953 started me thinking about how much work has changed since then. From the late 1880s to ...
Why Performance Reporting is NOT Performance Management! – Part 5 – Trust to Luck?
Alan Sugar, once chairman of Tottenham Hotspurs, is something like Marmite to most people - you either love him or hate him. However, there's quite some insight in one of his quotes - "There is a ...