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Becoming CEO of my own health decisions

Does the decision that you want to live a fuller but shorter life or a more restricted but longer life reside with you or your doctor? Eric Topol in his excellent book the ‘Patient will see you now’ talks about how you should become CEOs of your own health journeys, instructing reports and procedures as…

Lean Machine – Reflections on Improvement, Lean and Six Sigma in the NHS

After a year long apprenticeship about Lean and Six Sigma I can’t even go to a restaurant without thinking about how they can improve their processes by using improvement tools and approaches, it’s driving my wife crazy who is normally just trying to enjoy her food! At work it has been better received, the most…

Toastmasters as a Community of Practice

Toastmasters is an old fashioned, bureaucratic, pedagogically questionable public speaking club and I love it! I have been a card carrying club member for over ten years. Why? The people and their stories. The format of the flagship Competent Communicator ‘course’ asks participants to write ten short speeches about anything which they deliver in front…

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