Belbin team roles

A role could be defined as "a combination of values, attitudes and behaviour assigned to an individual who occupies a social position...

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So what is Maslow's hammer?

If you have not heard of "Maslow's hammer" before, you still may have heard the saying "it is tempting, if the only tool ...

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Theory X and Theory Y

Maslow's work on his Hierarchy of Needs was transferred from psychology to management, where "Douglas McGregor [..] encountered it ...

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Keiretsu

So what is keiretsu ? Well, Dagogo Altreide defines it as being "like a cartel, but nicer" (Cold Fusion TV, 2024, 5.19). Keiretsu ...

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The Sankey diagram

This year I stumbled across a diagram I had never seen before: a Sankey diagram. The example I saw was in a short documentary, effectively p...

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The origins of Agile

While I have written about agile project management techniques before ( here ), there is always a bit more to explore... and it is fascinati...

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The Agile Process

Boy, this post is a blast from the long past! I was asked earlier this year about agile (and scrum and sprint) techniques and had flashbacks...

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Tactics to reduce change resistance

In my consultancy work, and in employment, I have encountered reactions to change from my clients and from my colleagues all along the spect...

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An evaluation of Lewin's change model

Organisational change and innovation has been widely acknowledged to not necessarily be straight-forward; nor is it necessarily good. A lot ...

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Organisational structures

For those of us who have spent time in the management space, one element which often seems to get overlooked is what structure we might use ...

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PESTEL and scanning

We are probably all familiar with SWOT analysis: that business acronym which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. St...

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Mirroring alternate futures

Wow: I have just rejigged what it is that I 'do': and all from watching a TED talk. When people used to ask me "What do you do?...

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Management flaws

I am a bit of a fan of UK property guru, Sarah Beeny. I like her pragmatic yet expert advice, and the careful way she tries to explain to th...

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A continuum of decision-making models

Recently I have been thinking about decision-making models, and which ones are useful. Of course, usefulness depends on what our purpose i...

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Macro-environmental scanning or PESTEL

Macro-environmental factors are a management framework for thinking about the external forces of change that occur outside any entity, bey...

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How to undertake SWOT analysis

SWOT is an acronym standing for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. Strengths and weaknesses are internal to the organisatio...

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The pyramid scheme that was Maslow

Source: Thompkins-Jones (24 July 2014) In 1943, a psychologist called Abraham Maslow presented a framework in a paper proposing that we ...

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