by William Tate | 1 May 2018 | blog material
Targets spell trouble, as the UK’s Home Secretary Amber Rudd has discovered. Targets are a popular management tool in many organisations. They are hard-wired into the hierarchically dominant scientific management model (long out of date in the face of the new sciences...
by William Tate | 17 April 2018 | blog material
Last week we examined the widespread use of competency frameworks in ‘Why and where competency frameworks succeed or fail’. This raises some further issues. Lists of required practices, behaviours, skills and knowledge are popular in large organisations, both public...
by William Tate | 5 April 2018 | blog material
Let’s come clean about this. Whether useful or not, it’s time to admit that competency frameworks are flawed, not least because at heart they are unsystemic and linear. This matters: they concern generic behaviour and they target individuals. This is quite a burden,...
by William Tate | 30 March 2018 | blog material
Lessons from the right to bear arms School shootings in the US receive much discussion. In 1977 the National Rifle Association won an important argument in the US Senate. Lawyers decided that the original US constitution’s 1791 Second Amendment reference to the right...
by William Tate | 24 March 2018 | blog material
(Originally published in 2011. See Archives for more older posts) Tony Blair used to say this when challenging his ministers. But whatever our thoughts on politics, Blair’s question recognises that the best technical solution to a problem and the most rational...
