When I ask people to tell me what they think is a great team I often get given back the example of a Formula 1 team. But I don’t agree.
Cynefin and The Beast…
…from the East
or
Icy walking and the collapse into chaos
The Beast from the East (with a side order of Storm Emma) turned my home town into a friction-free zone on Friday. Rain on top of snow, freezing on contact, left roads, pavements and driveways covered in smooth, clear ice thick enough to skate on. Read More »
Who’s in charge here?
When a lifeboat gets called to a vessel needing help it is often necessary to place a lifeboat crew member on board to help out. So when, for example, a sailing boat requests assistance and I jump on board from a big, reassuring, orange boat – who’s in charge?
Don’t Confuse Precision with Accuracy
I’ve just read a thread from @RonJeffries in which he talks, as eloquently as ever, about precision.Read More »
SMEACs and SitReps
“OK, can you give me a SitRep?”, said the lifeboat inspector to me, years ago out one evening on the Inshore Lifeboat (ILB).Read More »
The Sharpie:Marker ratio
I forget where, but a few days ago I was reading a thread asking for suggestions about fun, or at least tongue-in-cheek, metrics that could be collected in your organisation. Read More »
On Constraints…
Why is ‘nothing ever simple’? I find myself saying it often, frequently to my children, but I don’t believe it. Some stuff is definitely simple – we’ve done it before, we know how it works, we can do it again. Easy.Read More »
Expanding Box? Uh?
Why call myself ‘Expanding Box’? Good question…
I’ve been proud to be involved with the Swanage Lifeboat crew for the whole of this century and have Read More »
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