by Tom | Mar 11, 2010 | Business
Despite it most likely being a pre-election salvo, I’m very keen on wider publication of salaries. I think the bizarre UK obsession with obfuscating what we earn (even between friends) is partly to blame for all sorts of discrimination and definitely allows...
by Tom | Mar 9, 2010 | Business, Government, Reading, Science, Tech
Checklists in surgery should be mandated given the extraordinary error improvements they bring. The interesting question is where else checklist thinking can be used.
by Tom | Mar 8, 2010 | Business, Personal, Tech
Interesting experiment to find the first posts of eighty blogs using different outsourced options. It’s a lot cheaper than I could do it myself, and pretty quick (the experiment if run once would have cost $50-60 and taken two hours with fact checking built in)....
by Tom | Mar 5, 2010 | Business
The hierarchical organisation doesn’t need to be that way. Some thinking on the issue from Disney, Schwartz and Husband.Bonus link: pictures of people at work. I liked the jellyfish census.
by Tom | Feb 26, 2010 | Business
Lovely skit on PR hacks following up unwanted emails. Embargoes
by Tom | Feb 24, 2010 | Business
Helpful myth debunker: UK manufacturing is twice the value it was after World War II. The article also answers the obvious contextual question: how much has GDP increased in the same time frame / what is the trend manufacturing as a proportion of total output? The...
