(This is a guest post by John Fletcher. John is an Englishman now resident in Europe, with a long career in the public sector in several countries. He has spent a good deal of time in working environments outside the Anglo-Saxon world, and has written and lectured on organizational issues.)
We all have to make decisions [...]

Pseudo-science forms the basis of too many of today’s management techniques

 
Many modern management theories and techniques claim to be “scientific” or based on “scientific findings.” The truth is that most of them are based on a perversion of real scientific methods. Here’s why that is so.
Science proceeds by the careful accumulation, testing and re-testing of [...]

Facing up — logically — to the start of another year
 
Do you ever ask yourself unanswerable questions, such as: “Why do so many people talk so much about change and do so little different in their lives?” or “What makes companies and managers believe that the same ways of operating that got them into some [...]