Our blog articles about strategy, people, performance, decision making, balanced scorecards and culture change
Here is a way into my blog articles, over 300 of them: It is structured into major topics areas linking to the most articles in each topic area. These cover:
- The Strategy Zone
- Communicating & socialising Strategy: An Executive’s guide
- The Decision Improvement Zone:
- The Culture & Behavioural Change Zone
- The Performance Management Zone: A guide to understanding the management of performance
- Modern Balanced Scorecard Zone
- The 4G Strategic Management Zone
- How we look at our organisations and how we manage: The Paradigm Shift Zone
- Thought provoking articles about how we manage our organisations
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1) Strategy choice, approach and implementation articles: Most recent first
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2) Communicating & Socialising Strategy articles: Most recent first
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3) Decision making and decision taking articles: Most recent first
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4) Performance management, various types and perspectives. Most recent articles first
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5) How to achieve Cultural and Behavioural change. Most recent articles first
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5) Modern Balanced Scorecards. Most recent articles first
How you frame performance management discussions
Do be aware how you frame a performance management discussion. I often encounter clients whose experience of performance management discussions is that they are a game of scoring the maximum amount and justifying a high score or protecting against the potential...
The failure of single point targets: A tragic NHS story
A tragic story of targets and "Incentives" When explaining how poor targets and measures destroy common sense, I often cite the case of Accident and Emergency (A&E) times in UK NHS hospitals. The government (through the Department of Health & Social Services...
Modern Balanced Scorecards: The important Sesame Street connection
Modern Balanced Scorecards: The Sesame Street Connection To understand the Balanced Scorecard you have to understand where the originators were coming from. This article provides insights into how the originators thinking influenced the underlying principles of the...
How Incentives and punishments affect measures
A recent forum discussion I was involved in centred around how you should engage people with measures and the effect of incentives, on the culture of performance. In my experience there are several aspects that alter the culture of performance, of which incentives (at...
Trusting staff to develop and provide measures for you
Do you trust your staff? A post on the PMA forum reminded me of a conversation I once had with a client's middle management team. It was during the balanced scorecard measures design workshop. I suggested they talk to their staff about the measures and targets and...
Cascading balanced scorecards
How do you cascade a balanced scorecard? Here are some simple rules that I use when when cascading balanced scorecards, learnt when I worked with Norton & Kaplan. Ones that I continue to apply with my clients. 1) Cascade objectives rather than measures. While...
6) Fourth Generation Strategic Balanced Scorecards and modern methods of management. Most recent articles first
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7) Paradigm shifts that affect our organisations and how we manage.
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7) Thought provokers, designed to make you consider thinking differently about how we manage and our organisations:
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