Bad practice

A Darwinian view of management leads many to believe that the most successful organisations must be following the best management practices. Add to this the fact that firms often adopt practices because they enhance their legitimacy – being the 'industry norm' – and then continue with them as they are 'the way it's always been done' and you have a recipe for disaster. For, as Freek Vermeulen, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at London Business School, says:

"Once adopted, a bad practice is hard to identify and often refuses to quit. And, like a virus, it begins to spread to other organisations."

Best practice is often bad practice: here are 10 ways to identify

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Cisnormativity, Cisgender privilege & all out Terf wars

Tuesday, July 4, 2023 - 08:43 When inclusion policy becomes a legacy liability

The past two decades have seen a massive upswing in extreme gender politics. Currently the woke agenda extends to hastily inventing acronyms with which to label gender viewpoints. Apparently the labels used by previous generations to identify gender ambiguity have become outdated. Cue the invention of some paltry pigeonholes for personality profiles.

Greed is good and lunch is pushed forward

Thursday, June 8, 2023 - 12:34 Expansion as a strategy creates systemic vulnerability

Many empires have grown quickly through a steadfast dedication to the expansionist philosophy. Exporting an agreed set of rules and economic conditions has proved successful for civilisations throughout history. Unfortunately for every single one of them, expansionism (by it's very nature) is doomed to fail.

The cream of the crop

Wednesday, September 21, 2022 - 09:36 Outstanding achievments in the field of excellence

Since the early 1900's and the heyday of information containment, such high profile operatives such as Eric Arthur Blair have crafted high quality narratives for public consumption. The relentless self aggrandisement of the overseas efforts have depicted dashing individuals, weaving masterful deceptions and dispatching foes with superhuman capability. The truth however, is somewhat different from the PR output. Brace yourselves for an uncompromising and far reaching expose as we delve into the inner workings of Britain's clandestine terrain.

Sleeping Satellite

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 - 11:39 The spy in the sky

Whether you are traveling at 100 miles per hour, hiding in a high rise stairwell or under the covers in your terraced cottage, you are still subject to orbiting surveillance. From reading the creases in your palm and measuring the infra-red radiation emitted by your cardio vascular system, to recording the electrical activity of your neurological system. Permanently active, low earth orbit satellites have ALLEGEDLY been capable of reading the minds of the terrestrial population for several decades. The existence of such invasive technology would make for some UTTERLY FANTASTIC sci-fi, but could represent an entirely tangible and clearly inescapable reality.