How do we change thinking? How do we change thinking? In most systems 95% of performance can be attributed to the system and as little as 5% is affected by the individual worker.
Motivation Intrinsic, engagement free Of the two theories of human motivation (Theory X and Theory Y), only one is changing the world of work, the one behind the Vanguard Method.
Schools 'shun traditional values in race for exam results' Telegraph, 16th May 2012, Graeme Paton reports that Anthony Seldon has warned that traditional values are being by-passed “headlong pursuit of exam results” to climb league tables and hit targets
Are Finnish schools the best in the world? The Independent, 13th May 2012, They have no uniforms, no selection, no fee-paying, no league tables and no Ofsted. Yet Finland's education system consistently tops global rankings.
Rethinking Lean Service Professor John Seddon talks about 'Rethinking Lean Service', how systems thinking requires lean to be reconsidered and how such a reexamination shows up where lean went wrong
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Book Review
Out of the Crisis John Seddon reviews W. Edward Deming's classic 'Out of the Crisis'
Jeremy Cox answers Vanguard's Jeremy Cox answers this month's question:
How important to the success of change is the design of the change program itself?
The Lean Toolhead Collection John Seddon has written extensively on the damage caused by Lean toolheads, these articles are now collected together for the first time
