Are you suffering from TLAs?*
*Three Letter Acronymns
Phil tackled the TLA’s. Phil personally checked every single Three Letter Acronym
and disqualified the ones made with pure bumph. He lost a lot of sleep weeding out
the buzzwords, clichés and old hash, and all the many fads and fashions he saw in
over three hundred factories, mills and businesses over two decades.
Then he put it all together.
Now he offers you his own special mix of common sense, tried and tested tools and
special insights. He uses plain words in plain English and French—no belts or Greek
letters or allusions to your weight or other terms that make you feel like you’re
learning a martial art or choosing a grade of beef.
Running a business is confusing
enough without some snooty consultant-speak. So if you want some clear insights,
plain help and customized solutions to solve that process problem, implement that
system or make sense of that data give Phil a call or send him an email.
The measurable and the unmeasurable
The belief that “if you cannot measure it, you cannot manage it,” popularized in
such books as the Balanced Scorecard, is wrong. It has misinformed and led many
people astray. This belief has spawned measurements and performance indicators for
every facet of businesses with little or no regard for the meaning of the numbers
or their trustworthiness, or even whether they are necessary.
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Too much system
In 1936 Alexander Bangs wrote that some managers went so far as to install management
systems of such elaboration that it took almost the factory to run the system, rather
than the system to run the factory. Unfortunately many organizations find themselves
in the same situation today.
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