• Indeed! Get yer motor runnin'... RT @luckyfish: motorcycle weather 19 hours ago
  • Claiming that. RT @rumon: To my friends having crap days (you know who you are), a temporary salve: Rufus Wainright's "Instant Pleasure". 1 day ago
  • Terrible! RT @smith: Very grizzled for my trip to Paris - power went out last night and wasn't back on when I woke. Lantern lit shower. 1 day ago
  • What?! (re The Godfather) RT @tristen__ashley: @jamehealy Seriously? Possibly the worst trilogy movie in history. 2 days ago
  • Watching The Godfather III. "Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in." Brilliant. 2 days ago

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Making Good

Corporate Social Responsibility is becoming a topic with growing momentum.  How do I know that?  Because it now has it’s own three-letter acronym (“CSR”) which actually means something to a growing number of people.

A colleague of mine, Dr. Rick Goossen, has recently launched an interesting new web-based offering that allows companies to socialise their social good works.

MakeGood (www.MakeGood.com) seeks …

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The Art of Complex Problem Solving

Someone passed this on to me the other day … I wish I remember who.

www.Idiagram.com

I’ve spent some time on this site, and have to hand it to the author Marshall Clemens, I’m impressed.

Not only does his style work for me, but the challenge of representing complex systems, problems or solutions into such easily understood illustrations or models I’m convinced …

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Myopic performance measurement…

How many times have we seen this before?  No names of course.

The irony of this cartoon is that the "employee" may in fact be correct.  Granted that a chart with this kind of dramatic drop-off is not typically illustrative of positive performance, we all too often pay these one-dimensional measurements too much attention.

Like the analogy of the airline pilot sitting …

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