Illustrates many key principles which need to be understood when improving the performance of organisations.[...]
This is a management book that challenges convention and aims to appeal to a wide target audience. It argues that while many commentators acknowledge command and control is failing us, no one provides an alternative.[...]
The free market has become the accepted model for the public sector. Politicians on all sides compete to spread the gospel. And so, in the UK and elsewhere, there's been massive investment in public sector 'improvement', 'customer choice' has been increased and new targets have been set and refined.[...]
In his acclaimed 2008 book "Systems Thinking in the Public Sector", John Seddon blew the whistle on public sector 'reform' and the flawed gospel of quasi-markets, competition, targets and inspection. He showed how thousands of people in the UK and elsewhere had been engaged at a cost of millions of [...]
A 1907 biography of Richard Seddon (1845-1906), New Zealand's longest-serving prime minister (1893-1906), illuminating the Liberal Party's history.[...]
"Command and Control is failing us. There is a better way to design and manage work - a better way to make work work - but it remains unknown to the vast majority of managers." An adherent of the Toyota Production System, John Seddon explains how traditional top-down decision making within service o[...]
This latest colletion of Case Studies demonstrate just how much can be achieved in a relatively short time using a Systems Thinking approach in a wide range of local authority departments.It's a handbook for anyone faced with the apparently impossible task of improving service levels and dramaticall[...]
La reforma de la Administracion Publica es un asunto pendiente en muchos paises. En algunos se han llevado a cabo programas de mejora en la eficiencia pero no se ha conseguido mejorar la calidad de los servicios ni reducir los costes, sino todo lo contrario: un aumento de los costes y la necesidad d[...]
John Seddon is back. This time with an uncompromising account of Whitehall's effect on our public services. And it's a damning read. 'The Whitehall Effect' chronicles how the Whitehall ideas machine has failed to deliver on a monumental scale - and what we can do about it. We have a breathtaking[...]
Den gamla principen att ge order, styra och kontrollera (command-and-control) fungerar inte längre. Det finns ett bättre sätt att utforma och leda arbetet - ett bättre sätt att få arbetet att fungera väl.
I boken tillämpar John Seddon Toyotas produktionssystem (skapat av Taiichu [...]
Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics, now in its third edition, is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight.[...]
Ask any graphic designer the world over about their preferred approach to setting type, choosing a colour, or beginning a new layout, and you will rarely get exactly the same answer twice. Every creative has their own individual approach, or more importantly their own combinations of the thousands o[...]