Thank you for joining John Seddon’s book tour

Thank you for joining us on Tuesday 9th March 2021 from 10am until 11am GMT, John looks forward to seeing you at the Beyond Command and Control webinar.

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We will send you the Zoom webinar link on Monday 8th March and a reminder to join shortly before the webinar is due to start on Tuesday 9th March.

What you need to take part

To join the webinar, you need a laptop, computer, smart phone or tablet with a connection to the internet. You don’t need any other special software or equipment.

About the event:

Covid cancelled the second half of John’s book tour. Given what’s going on, we’d like to invite you to a final book tour event on 9th March 2021 hosted by John on Zoom.

Join us for an eye-opening and entertaining talk, with the opportunity to buy a signed copy of John’s latest book, Beyond Command and Control, at half price.

This book offers to solve the UK productivity conundrum, dramatically improve health and care services while reducing their cost and much more besides. And it is no promise or dream; it is evidenced by those who have followed John’s prescription, which is to change the way they think about management.

As well as covering familiar ground in an unfamiliar way this book says more about the ‘how’ of change and the need for whole-system change in our service organisations, in other words, what is the new role for HR, Finance and IT? John also takes on Agile, the most dysfunctional of fads, to point out its fallacies and describe how to design digital services that work without any of the rituals, roles and new-speak that Agile has brought. And more besides…

As ever, John’s philosophy is challenging, innovative and inspiring. Most of all, it works!

There will be an opportunity to ask John questions.

John Seddon speaks at The Insurance Network

Jeremy Burgess, CEO of The Insurance Network, interviewed John Seddon, Vanguard’s Managing Director, on Tuesday 9th February 2021 at the TINtech London Market event.  

John and Jeremy discuss management thinking around productivity, digitising services, and managing a distributed environment with a workforce working from home.

Employee surveillance

Your boss can see your emails, any documents you read or create, your appointments, who you talk to, and when; can listen to or read transcriptions of your calls. Your boss can see your computer screen, can monitor your internet use, the sites you visit and for how long. Your boss can even turn on your camera and watch you at work.

How would you like to be that employee?

In this podcast, from January 2021, John Seddon analyses employee surveillance, the latest command and control disease.

A podcast from John Seddon: Purpose Measures Method

John Seddon describes his podcast, from November 2020, as follows:

“In my podcast on failure demand, I remarked that while the concept of failure demand has the fastest legs – in the sense that people ‘get it’ – it is not the most important; the most important concept in the Vanguard Method is the relationship between purpose, measures and method. Some subscribers asked me to say more, so I thought I’d do an occasional series on principles of the Vanguard Method, concepts we have developed in our work helping service organisations make great strides. So here’s the first, on purpose, measures method.

“You need a pen and paper for this one.”