In a Middle European country in the 1930s, so the story goes, the management of a gun factory were told by the newly-installed communist government to stop manufacturing arms, but to continue to keep the factory open, and to continue Read More

Andrew Bass’s Pragmatics Newsletter October 2013 Practical techniques and thought-provoking ideas Main article takes under 4 minutes to read. Subscribe at www.bassclusker.com/newsletter. Please pass this on to colleagues who you think will find it interesting: ‘sharing’ link in the footer. Read More

Many managers, aided and abetted by the training community, act as if when you have a behaviour issue, all you need to do is name the issue and stick the word ‘training’ on the end. You will now have your Read More

I’m not sure the original attribution of the following visual – I think Jack Welch talked about the principle in a video I saw once. I’d welcome a note telling me the original source. I include it anyway because it Read More

by Andrew Bass  |  Blog, Culture, Strategy

In strategic decision making, there is always the temptation to do more analysis in the hope that it will reduce uncertainty. But beyond a certain point, which comes sooner than most people would like, more analysis does not equal more Read More