Ways of Working Nudge

Incentives (explicit and implicit) drive behaviours which drive outcomes.

"Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity", Rita Mae Brown…

Did you know that the word 'entropy' comes from the Greek words for in (en) + transformation (tropē)?!

Organisational entropy (disorder) increases over time (second law of thermodynamics), unless there is energy to maintain or reduce it. Bureaucracy, complexity, dependencies, impediments to outcomes, increase over time. Like weeds growing back or an unmaintained house decaying…

Did you know that Francis Bacon, Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton all had a hand in shaping the Gantt chart that you use in your company today?

There is a direct link from the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment (1680 to 1804) to Gantt charts…

Did you know that the word "priority" has only existed in the singular form, until relatively recently?

From the Latin 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳, meaning former or earlier, it referred to the "𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 that came before all others".

‘Priority' entered the English language in the 1300s. For centuries, you could only have a singular priority.
Then, as recently as the early 1900s…