In response to The Journey not the end:
A well designed and marketed program is far superior to this approach. Why should effort be put into holding both options open? The whole point of these improvements is to make an improvement? This can't be achieved if you carry the baggage over...
Decisiveness is to be valued here and there are no rewards in this sort of risk averse approach.
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Saturday, August 9, 2008
On Safety Management System
Safety Management:
How do you intend to fix the problems if you just capture stories? Surely there is a need for the processes of review and assigning causality to the failures in the system? Would you have just anybody entering their thoughts into the system? And by this, you are then willing to do nothing about something that is reported? I sure hope that you are willing to be sued
The whole basis for this system is to right the wrongs that lead to a failure such that it can't lead to another (worse) failure. Without meaningful consideration of each incident then what is the point of a Safety Management System?
How do you intend to fix the problems if you just capture stories? Surely there is a need for the processes of review and assigning causality to the failures in the system? Would you have just anybody entering their thoughts into the system? And by this, you are then willing to do nothing about something that is reported? I sure hope that you are willing to be sued
The whole basis for this system is to right the wrongs that lead to a failure such that it can't lead to another (worse) failure. Without meaningful consideration of each incident then what is the point of a Safety Management System?
Friday, August 8, 2008
On White Noise
White Noise:
Actually after writing all of the above, I stumbled across the aforementioned article and to remain true to type I will contradict everything to avoid accusation of falling into line. Are we underselling the human element? The evolution of learning and information transition has been great so why is this new advent of skimming terrifically huge amounts of information for the things that we need. Does this not increase the diversity of the masses as individuals interface with the information that interests them?
Fair enough that corruption of systems like Google can have the impact of referring people to the same source material, but this is well combatted by the Web2.0 and filtering through a trusted network of friends. Whilst we may change what we consider to be high intelligence I doubt that we are really seeing a decay in the knowledge of the populace? Is this not a co-emergence resulting in more specialists in more fields? Thus the only way to be a generalist is to flit from blog to link to wiki...
Actually after writing all of the above, I stumbled across the aforementioned article and to remain true to type I will contradict everything to avoid accusation of falling into line. Are we underselling the human element? The evolution of learning and information transition has been great so why is this new advent of skimming terrifically huge amounts of information for the things that we need. Does this not increase the diversity of the masses as individuals interface with the information that interests them?
Fair enough that corruption of systems like Google can have the impact of referring people to the same source material, but this is well combatted by the Web2.0 and filtering through a trusted network of friends. Whilst we may change what we consider to be high intelligence I doubt that we are really seeing a decay in the knowledge of the populace? Is this not a co-emergence resulting in more specialists in more fields? Thus the only way to be a generalist is to flit from blog to link to wiki...
On Farr CIO
Thursday, August 7, 2008
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
On Unity of Direction
In response to Unity of Direction:
What sort of business strategy advocates the firing of customers? Tried and true methods advocate finding a customer base and meeting their needs. Surely a better approach to so called delinquent customers is to ascertain and meet their needs. Ultimately, if you aren't meeting a need what are you doing?
Furthermore, it seems counterintuitive to throw away good staff that have already been invested in, why not just further develop them? Surely the cost of minor adjustments in their development is more effective than starting again.
What sort of business strategy advocates the firing of customers? Tried and true methods advocate finding a customer base and meeting their needs. Surely a better approach to so called delinquent customers is to ascertain and meet their needs. Ultimately, if you aren't meeting a need what are you doing?
Furthermore, it seems counterintuitive to throw away good staff that have already been invested in, why not just further develop them? Surely the cost of minor adjustments in their development is more effective than starting again.
On Values-based Leadership
Values-based Leadership:
Without the values of the organisation freely available in their various forms how would you have decision making occur in your business? Would you rely solely on the good-nature of individuals and the values that they personally hold dear?
Irrespective of this, my experience has been that given any group brought together to agree on the values of the organisation they will tend to come up with a series of Wank Words and then go on to make their decisions based on the rules...
The fact is that no Aircraft is signed up as Serviceable in accordance with the Organisational Values, so are we instituting Best (Past) Practice and thus replicating the end conditions and not the start...
Without the values of the organisation freely available in their various forms how would you have decision making occur in your business? Would you rely solely on the good-nature of individuals and the values that they personally hold dear?
Irrespective of this, my experience has been that given any group brought together to agree on the values of the organisation they will tend to come up with a series of Wank Words and then go on to make their decisions based on the rules...
The fact is that no Aircraft is signed up as Serviceable in accordance with the Organisational Values, so are we instituting Best (Past) Practice and thus replicating the end conditions and not the start...
On just a thought
Just a thought:
I think that the bleeding heart support of employee terrorism is irresponsible. The threats to strike over pay rises that are not aligned to productivity increases are blackmail and should be dealt with accordingly. Pandering to this sort of behaviour just encourages more of its kind.
The industry requires a high level of attention to detail by professional personnel, failure to perform at the appropriate level is tantamount to negligence would put lives at risk. Thus the two issues, Industrial Relations and Maintenance failures should not be related giving the CEO the right to express his counter position to unionist blackmail. If they are related then surely legal proceedings will for negligence from the CASA investigation.
I think that the bleeding heart support of employee terrorism is irresponsible. The threats to strike over pay rises that are not aligned to productivity increases are blackmail and should be dealt with accordingly. Pandering to this sort of behaviour just encourages more of its kind.
The industry requires a high level of attention to detail by professional personnel, failure to perform at the appropriate level is tantamount to negligence would put lives at risk. Thus the two issues, Industrial Relations and Maintenance failures should not be related giving the CEO the right to express his counter position to unionist blackmail. If they are related then surely legal proceedings will for negligence from the CASA investigation.
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