If you are a reliability engineer or work in maintenance, then you know how important – and how difficult – it can be to get accurate and high quality data. Can data collectors be “pushed”… Read More »Motivation: Push or Pull?
You would have to be living under a rock if you hadn’t come across goal-setting at work. Everybody has goals, whether they are the long-range strategic goals of the organisation, the key performance indicators (KPIs)… Read More »What is Goal-Setting and How Does it Work?
We all know that we have goals. What we don’t usually think about is the range of goals we have and how they are connected. This is what goal hierarchy helps us to examine. A… Read More »What is a Goal Hierarchy?
A while ago I got a text message that said, “You have been identified as someone who may be at high risk of severe illness if you catch Coronavirus.” Along with about 2 million others… Read More »Who am I if I’m not at work?
What will a post-covid economy look like? Will it recover from the deep recession that has been forecast? Or will we even be thinking about our economy in recession versus growth terms? Although it’s more… Read More »What do we want in a Post-Covid Economy?
The lockdown in our house isn’t pretty. I’m sat in the guest room on a bean-bag with the drying racks behind me; feeling pleased with myself if I change from pyjamas to a tracksuit. I… Read More »Personality & Pandemics
Could the UK government have done better during the Covid-19 pandemic? Given the size and unprecedented nature of the problem, can we expect them to have done better? I’m going to explore how well the… Read More »UK Government Report Card: High Reliability & Coronavirus