Category Archives: competence

Words I didn’t know, have googled/wikipedia-ed

Posted on August 4, 2014 by dwighttowers

Actinic (Solar page 118) Actinism is the property of solar radiation that leads to the production of photochemical and photobiological effects Agapanthus Some species of Agapanthus are commonly known as lily of the Nile (or African lily in the UK), … Continue reading →

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*Excellent* video on Big M and small m meetings by Johnnie Moore. Watch this!!!

Posted on July 13, 2014 by dwighttowers

http://johnniemoore.com/big-m-meetings/

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Not agnostic about agnatology – ignorance as a weapon in the never-ending class war

Posted on July 8, 2014 by dwighttowers

Don’t let your slaves learn to read. Not even the Bible, and the bits about the sons of Ham. Who knows what else they might do with that tool you have put in their hands. The field ones, definitely not. … Continue reading →

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What happens when you get rid of managers? Excellent interesting reading…

Posted on June 6, 2014 by dwighttowers

Hat-tip Tim Kastelle… http://stoweboyd.com/post/88000463327/what-happens-when-you-get-rid-of-managers

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Notes on competence, availability and reliability

Posted on May 12, 2014 by dwighttowers

Clearly if you’re going to embark on big (and unpaid) projects with people, it helps if they have Competence Remember – competence is a social phenomenon. It is hard for an eagle to soar when surrounded by turkeys. If your … Continue reading →

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The Emperor’s New… nudist colony

Posted on May 6, 2014 by dwighttowers

Let’s get over the idea that our lords and masters are shame-able. The little boy calls it out and a) is denounced as a communist/terrorist-sympathiser and gets his skinny ass rendered to Gitmo and/or b) is derided as “unrealistic” and … Continue reading →

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Three stories about trust

Posted on April 26, 2014 by dwighttowers

I lend someone my video camera to take some footage, on the basis that he will meet me at place x at 11am the following day, because I need the camera to do some filming. He knows this.  I wait … Continue reading →

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Death by a thousand insults – #climate change, social movement, individuals

Posted on April 23, 2014 by dwighttowers

What’s my contribution in the global scale of things? What harm am I doing by flying to Australia and back, in the face of a new power station every thirty seconds in China or India or somewhere like that. It … Continue reading →

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Brilliant perspective on public versus private sector foul-ups!!

Posted on April 22, 2014 by dwighttowers

With wit and verve from here. So why do we hear so much about government failures and not about private sector ones? I have one word for you: accountability. Public organisations are taxpayer funded and are accountable to taxpayers via government … Continue reading →

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Britain as EPI failure when it comes to worker participation. Whodathunkit?

Posted on April 10, 2014 by dwighttowers

http://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/robin-mcalpine/whats-really-happening-at-grangemouth-and-what-it-tells-us The European Participation Index (EPI) has calculated the participation of workers in 27 EU and EEA countries by combining the aggregate scores of their plant-level participation, board-level participation, collective bargaining coverage and trade-union density. Britain scores 26th out of … Continue reading →

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