Andrew Bass’s Pragmatics Newsletter Sept 2013 Practical techniques and thought-provoking ideas Main article takes under 4 minutes to read. Subscribe at www.bassclusker.com/newsletter In July, I offered a report jokily titled: ‘How to resist change and slow down execution in any 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

However well you formulate your strategy, its success or failure is going to depend on how well you translate it for the needs of those who must support it. Andrew discusses some thought experiments to help convey the concept of The Read More

If Friedrich Nietzsche hadn’t been a great philosopher, he would have made a pretty good consultant (I leave you to decide whether this was a missed opportunity…). Here’s an example of his perspicacity: “During the journey we commonly forget its Read More

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In my blog of August 31st 2012 – “Why make it complicated: a lesson from the Russian space programme” – I talked about how the engineers on the programme, lacking the funds of their US rivals, had to resort to ingenious Read More