Turned up to give my lecture on magic and ritual in healthcare management. Got through my quote from Snape before a hand went up and informed me that they were expecting statistics.
I was in the wrong lecture theatre... I'd take magic over stats any day though!

From horror show to triumph! This is the moment when pianist Maria Joao Pires realises - as the orchestra starts to play - that she has learned the wrong piece for a concert. With no sheet music to fall back on, she has to keep calm and carry on. She is AMAZING. As is conductor…

A 'cognitive bias' is a systematic error in thinking that ruins decision-making.

Yesterday, my thread on the topic was read by over 2,000,000 people.

7 more powerful cognitive biases I've found:

An evidently frustrated Florence Nightingale pleading for data that 'would tell us more of the relative value of particular operations and modes of treatment than we have any means of ascertaining at present.'
(Notes on Hospitals, 1863)

💡 “Every decision is made within a feedback loop.” - Jay Wright Forrester, the Father of the field of #SystemDynamics

📗 Principles of Systems: ow.ly/H6iz50Qq1L2
📗 Jay’s classics: ow.ly/Rpj250Qq1L3

Great letter in today’s Times:

Are you a systems thinker?

graphic from The Social Change Agency

Three Graphics to Understand what we mean by Systems Awareness tinyurl.com/ynlf288k

Almost all baby deaths were reviewed using the PMRT. Hospital reviews were more positive than the conclusions of the confidential enquiry panels. When a review did take place, most parents didn’t have any questions , especially if they didn’t speak English. TIMMS

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I wish someone from senior management would come on and defend the BBC’s news operations without sounding like they’re launching cherry Coke #Newsnight

Helleborus orientales «Rose» blooms for the second time this year.
#Flowers #nature #NaturePhoto graphy #gardening #gardens #Norway #plants #nature life #nature #NaturePhoto

When the War is over and the sword at last we sheathe,
I'm going to keep a jelly-fish and listen to it breathe.
When the War is over and we've finished up the show,
I'm going to plant a lemon-pip and listen to it grow. ~A.A.Milne #peace #quiet

Just when history is a subject under threat at university departments, it has never been more important to study.

Julian Dutton's critically-acclaimed tribute show to Dad's Army star John Le Mesurier will be playing the Corn Hall, Diss, for one night only tomorrow NOV.4TH at 7.30.
‘Julian Dutton gives a tour de force. An amazing performance – every word, every phrase, is John Le Mesurier

.Jess Phillips MP Thank you for following the #Auschwitz Memorial.

Auschwitz is a place that shows where hatred, antisemitism and contempt for a fellow man led people decades ago. It is also a place where we should reflect on our individual and collective responsibility for the…

We are overwhelmed by the love that has come from you all. Rebecca was special to us buts it's very clear she was so special to absolutely everyone who met her.
We have a fundraising page in her memory.
Thank you all ❤💔❤

justgiving.com/page/amanda-br…

This video from Norwich City FC is the best bit of Mental Health Awareness I’ve ever seen… watch until the end.

Our Universal Healthcare Report is out. We found with the best intentions the NHS is increasing inequalities by how it designs access and services. lsbu.ac.uk/about-us/news/… #universalhealthcare

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with one purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.