Dr Mike Clayton
Mike is an author and speaker, specialising in Projects, Risk, Organisational change, and the science of influence and decision-making.
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Emotional Proximity
As risk managers, we are used to a number of dimensions to risk which we regularly or occasionally bring into our assessment of risk. Yesterday, I was led to consider a new dimension by one of the delegates on a … Continue reading
Posted in Analysing Risk, Risk Management
Tagged emotional proximity, geographical proximity, risk, risk analysis
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Instant Change
The military has some of the very best management ideas. I wrote about how to apply the principles of the OODA Loop to management in my first book, the Management Models Pocketbook. I will also be writing about BLUF in … Continue reading
Posted in Change, Management Models
Tagged Change, Change Management, freeze phases, Influence, Kurt Lewin, Lewin, OODA Loop, organisational change
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True Vision or just Good Words
One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the poverty of language used in corporate environments. People seem to swing to one of two extremes: Complex, jargon heavy language, wrapped in convoluted syntax Simplistic statements that tend to hyperbole … Continue reading
The Science and Politics of Fear
I have just finished reading “Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear” by Dan Gardner. It is a good read and I would recommend it highly to anyone with an interest in how perceptions of risk work. The Psychology of … Continue reading
