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Comment on Quand le doigt montre le ciel, l’imbécile regarde le doigt… by A Garden Gnome in Paris… | What I Reckon

A Garden Gnome in Paris… | What I Reckon — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:45:34 +0000

[…] last month about how our trip to Paris to celebrate Rachel’s birthday had been inspired by one of our favourite films, Amélie. An important sub-plot of that film revolves around Amélie stealing her father’s prize […]

Comment on Three is the magic number… by Tim

Tim — Wed, 08 May 2013 14:33:46 +0000

Yep, couldn’t agree more. Business does need to be simplified to an extent to make it easier for us to understand, but not to the point where it’s SO simplified that your KPIs don’t actually tell you anything you need to know about what’s working or not working in your business.

By the same token, you can’t manage a business with 30 KPIs, where you become more obsessed.with measuring the metric than you do with actually making sensible business decisions. Somewhere in between there is a happy medium – one which doesn’t conform to hard and fast rules.

I do think there is some value in reducing certain aspects of communication to threes – the ‘rule of threes’ is well established as a speech-writing tool – but as with so many things it’s a case of employing the right trick at the right time and not doing everything the same way.

Comment on Daley Thompson + Iron Maiden = Marketing GOLD… by theproseandthepassion

theproseandthepassion — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:24:08 +0000

I’ll take your word for it, Bob. Thanks for clarifying.
My memory had the Iron Maiden advert and the 1984 games almost simultaneously, and what research I could uncover seemed to confirm that. But I’m more than happy to stand corrected!

Thanks for reading the blog, hope you enjoyed it…

Chris

Comment on I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that… by Three is the magic number… | What I Reckon

Three is the magic number… | What I Reckon — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:14:52 +0000

[...] I don’t believe this is a fundamental human behavioural trait: indeed, more often than not humans have a tendency to reduce issues to a simple binary: man or woman, gay or straight, freedom-fighter or terrorist, when in fact there’s almost certainly a continuum or sliding scale. It is, as Ben Goldacre asserts, a bit more complicated than that. [...]

Comment on Daley Thompson + Iron Maiden = Marketing GOLD… by Bob Dent

Bob Dent — Sat, 04 May 2013 23:04:33 +0000

I am afraid you are wrong Daly did a commercial for lucozade before traffic lights. The agency was Leo Burnetts director John St Clair. Traffic lights was made before 1984 Olympics for Ogilvy Mather and directed by Bruce Dowad

Comment on My name is Chris, and I’m proud to be a (bleeding heart) liberal… by A very funny man… | What I Reckon

A very funny man… | What I Reckon — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:32:26 +0000

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Comment on A week is a long time in politics… by Is this the definition of madness? | What I Reckon

Is this the definition of madness? | What I Reckon — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:32:28 +0000

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Comment on How long is a piece of string…? by Tim

Tim — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:42:27 +0000

Frankly, I find this approach appalling. It reduces education to a set of quantitaive metrics and forces teachers into focussing as much on admin and standardisation as on tending to the differing development needs of individual puplis. Worse still, it stigmatises ‘underperforming’ schools, even though there may in reality be no discernible difference between a good school and a not-good one.

No doubt Gove will couch all this in terms of ‘raising the bar’, but I think he forgets the fundamental truth that what makes education really work is not the performance of schools or even the performance of pupils but the performance of teachers in terms of finding a way to support all types of pupil. I’m not entirely sure how any of the current actions help achieve that.

Comment on …leave the kids alone… by How long is a piece of string…? | What I Reckon

How long is a piece of string…? | What I Reckon — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:24:20 +0000

[...] I Reckon a one-size-fits-all set of criteria for measuring children is flawed, and the current obsession with quantifying and counting everything is at best imperfect and at worst could suppress children’s personalities and creativity. I’m no expert, but Sir Ken Robinson is, so if you I haven’t convinced you, maybe he can. [...]

Comment on Teach to the test… by How long is a piece of string…? | What I Reckon

How long is a piece of string…? | What I Reckon — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 13:24:11 +0000

[...] the same way as children are tutored to pass the grammar school entrance tests, schools are now focusing, at least in the short-term, on data-capturing and reporting. I hope it [...]