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Nina Dar

February 6, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

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A fishbone might save your business

I loved using Ishikawa or "Fishbone" diagrams (named after Kaoru Ishikawa who became one of the guru's of modern management in the 1960s after he pioneered the use of them in quality management processes in the Kawasaki shipyards). It was like peeling an onion, carefully taking each layer of a problem and figuring out what had caused the problems we were seeing at the time so that we understood the cause. Once we understood the cause we could decide what our next course of action was; was it something we could fix and move on, or had something changed meaning that our landscape had altered and our course of action needed to change?

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Nina Dar

January 30, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Economy, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

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Benefits cap – rejected, no game changing ambition and poor ROI

Everyday we work on game changing ideas for big business. They are always for commercial gain and there to prove we are stretching beyond what exists today, taking on impossible thinking, innovating and being future facing. I'm happy to say that there has been recent energy surge for this, as if business has finally acknowledged that there is no point in waiting, being risk adverse isn't going to cut it, bring out the ballsy thinking!

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Nina Dar

January 23, 2012 in Communication, Innovation, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

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Do you wear the horns of destiny? Gong Xi Fa Cai & Gong Hey Fat Choy!

Innovative in spirit, Monkeys get a helping hand in 2012 from the Year of the Dragon. Opportunities for growth are many and doing things for the general good of those around is recommended. Research/study and taking on activities to push their own personal growth will be on the anvil and prove exciting. With a taste for adventure and their love of partying, Monkeys will be wearing their social hats, throwing many a swanky do or taking trips around the world.

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Michael Ryan

January 18, 2012 in Communication, Leadership, News, Transformational Change

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How can we really engage with the ‘Big Society’?

No matter how much I try to engage with it, I find it difficult to be enthusiastic about modern politics. Just reading political headlines or watching Question Time irritates me as I am faced with ‘career politicians’ who seem more interested in sniping at their opponents than anything else. If I don't believe in what they are saying, how can I engage in the 'Big Society'?

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Nina Dar

January 16, 2012 in Communication, Economy, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

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Was the Iron Lady so unique no-one will follow?

Margaret Thatcher is still a polarising figure, worshipped and reviled, sometimes by the same people. People who emerge from the masses and become figures that make such a difference to the world because of their actions (good and bad) fascinate me. Why them? What did they do to get such attention and influence? Of course in reflection, was that a good thing or bad?

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Nina Dar

January 9, 2012 in Change Management, Communication, Leadership, Motivation, Transformational Change

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Choose to believe and look for the glue

I wanted to write about the 100th Anniversary of the African National Congress (ANC) but felt deflated because it was a movement that changed a country but I couldn't hand on heart say that it's transition to being a political party has been the success that it should have been and the allegations of corruption and political infighting are a far cry from the dignity of Nelson Mandela's inclusive rainbow nation.

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Michael Ryan

January 4, 2012 in Change Management, Motivation, PLM, Transformational Change

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Does Creating a Structure Have To Be Routine?

Implementing a PLM structure to your new product development process can add benefit in helping the people in your organisation to create better quality products that appeal to your consumers. But does this process have to be routine?

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Nina Dar

December 22, 2011 in Communication, Economy, Motivation, Transformational Change

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Home sweet home…not for everyone this Christmas

The headline this week that 70,000 children in the UK would wake up on Christmas day homeless made me stop in my tracks and listen. The headline was Shelter drawing attention to the fact that to be homeless you don't have to be sat in a shop doorway, you could be out of sight in a B&B, Refuge or Shelter - temporary accommodation - and these figures are on the up in a scary way.

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