Say no more.

Unleashing the creative mind.

Imagine the possibilities of creating an organisation where everybody is able to work at their maximum potential. Its interesting that society as well as businesses organise themselves not around their people, but around proven dysfunction. Take the numerous business functions that support cost accounting as an example - Project Management that focusses on cost control and resource management as opposed to throughput accounting which focusses (and provides the transparency enables people to be creative) toward the real organisational goals.

On creativity...

Says it all. :-)

Possibly the worst story card I've ever seen.

Productivity & The Caveman

There's no doubt that the landscape of the average office has changed over the last 20 years.

In the 80's computers arrived in the corporate mainstream, enabling office workers to write presentable, distributable documentation and create financial and numerical calculations in a traceable and clear way.

Swiftly this was followed by the revolution of email, the panacea to corporate communication, a tool to bring order to the troops, providing a trail of conversation and the extinction of that synonymous phrase 'Did you get my Memo?'.

Over those years, however we've somewhat departed from our roots. Documents, spreadsheets and email has replaced a lot of face to face communication. High quality  conversation has been replaced with high density text, dumbing down the senses of the mind and body to a organic corporate mush generator. I ask you, why does 'steer' have to replace gut feeling and how on earth did 'I'm with you' get replaced by 'Are we singing from the same hymn sheet?'?

In the last few decades we've seen our world change before our eyes, but we're still the same folk who lived in caves and thought sticks were brilliant. We need to physically interact, to share, to touch. We need to feel like we belong and are part of the pack. 

So to you all, step out from behind your glowing screens and the conversations in your mind and go and do what your body tells you, what your mind craves. Get out there, hunt for you want, work together to get it, and take it back to your cave and devour it.

Only then will you really understand what you're missing.

Process Efficiency

Does your boss know his process efficiency? I doubt it. Most don't.

You can read more about it here:

http://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c031208a.asp