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Tag Archives: organisational trust
A Tale of Two Kings
At bedtime, Stick Child’s Daddy often reads his son a story from his favourite story book, “Medieval Stories from Stick Kingdom with an Inevitable Systems Thinking Moral”. One recent story they particularly enjoyed was called “A Tale of Two Kings”, which … Continue reading
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Tagged command and control, management, organisational trust, Stick Child, systems thinking
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Potted!
These beauties are my baby chilli plants, grown from seeds I cut out of chillies during my Mexican cooking efforts a few weeks ago. As you can see, they are only about an inch high at the moment, but if they … Continue reading
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Tagged blame, command and control, criticism, deming, inspection, management, organisational trust, policy, systems, systems thinking
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Cream or Ice Cream?
This blog post could quite easily have been called ‘Another Short Pub Tale’, or ‘A Short Pub Tale XXI- This Time It’s Personal’, or suchlike. Same pub, same(ish) subject matter; I was even drinking the same beer. This place is full of … Continue reading
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Tagged decision making, management, organisational culture, organisational trust, policy, rules, systems, systems thinking, variety
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A Short Pub Tale
Here’s a little story from the pub. It has nothing to do with policing…or does it? I was waiting at the bar in a busy local pub recently when something happened that made me think about organizational trust and frontline … Continue reading
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Tagged decision making, management, organisational trust, risk management, systems, systems thinking
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Pie In The Sky
I’m a systems thinker. Usually this is a welcome gift that helps me identify issues that adversely affect performance, and therefore implement simple solutions. Other times it is almost like some sort of weird curse, as I haven’t yet found the ‘off’ … Continue reading
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Tagged deming, flow, lean, management, organisational trust, performance management, process improvement, systems, systems thinking
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