Happy New Year to all, may the best of your 2011 be the worst of your 2012.

Don't worry about what you eat between Christmas and the New Year, worry about what you eat between the New Year and Christmas.

Good resolutions are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde

A New Year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

Supply Chain Leaders 2011 from the FT: http://on.ft.com/v0J91B

#2 interesting Forbes article: http://onforb.es/uUetDA

Interesting Articles from Forbes contributors: http://onforb.es/udhZRb

Interesting view from NYT http://nyti.ms/vFV6QI

Control through fear in schools - it's all part of the system http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Very proud of my daughters, both passing their karate grading tonight, 5yr old is now a red belt and 7yr old is now a Yellow belt; well done

Control through fear in schools - it's all part of the system http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Control through fear in schools - it's all part of the system http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Control through fear in schools - it's all part of the system http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Control through fear in schools - it's all part of the system http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Thoughts on the impact of control, through education, and politics, on national productivity - http://bit.ly/sM1Ifl

Kids with Cancer - Donations required - Please sponsor my friend - Full Body Wax - it will be filmed - Donate here http://bit.ly/tTQfFc

Kids with Cancer - Donations required - Please sponsor my friend - Full Body Wax - it will be filmed - Donate here http://bit.ly/tTQfFc

More cartoon fun for important issues http://bit.ly/Imprinting_Psych_101

Kids with Cancer - Donations required - Please sponsor my friend - Full Body Wax - it will be filmed - Donate here http://bit.ly/tTQfFc

A serious side to organisational change http://bit.ly/v8VJfh

Some cartoon fun for business and political leaders http://bit.ly/vZMrgC

Cartoons on people and change - Just for fun ;-) http://bit.ly/sZkH28

@bbcquestiontime is the real issue a lack of tacit knowledge in those who believe policy manifests, as they perceive it, on the ground?

Kids with Cancer - Donations required - Please sponsor my friend - Full Body Wax - it will be filmed - Donate here http://bit.ly/tTQfFc

Kids with Leukaemia - Donations required - Please sponsor my friend - Full Body Wax - it will be filmed - Donate here http://bit.ly/tTQfFc

Arthur Christmas - a film for business leaders everywhere, there is a limit to process and technology - http://ping.fm/IyhLK

a lesson in bad customer service http://bit.ly/ceipul £1100 cancel'n fee + £1200 cancel fee + £500 fee for cutting off their own service !!!

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped

re 'The apprentice' ... and yet ... what a great way to show a defined process doesn't always enable the best results!!!!

So when are they going to build repeat business into the definition of success on 'The Apprentice'. Talk about driving short term thinking!

R.I.P Simoncelli - our thoughts are with your family, friends and the other riders.

http://bit.ly/pkZDUf - it kinda wants to make you say 'No Sh*t sherlock' doesn't it?

Fantastic day delivering our SOI course (module2, day2) - incredibly valuable even if i do say so myself.

looks like busy! latest research: 87% of managers can't motivate, 86% have no integrity and 80% can't communicate" - http://bit.ly/pNAosR

Deming's philosophy includes a thorough knowledge of ST, Variation, Knowledge and PSYCHOLOGY; so why do we only seek to understand Variation

Brilliant feedback on PCC's peer to peer event of last Monday. A big thank you to all speakers and delegates.

We were all pleasantly surprised by the positive call from No.11 Downing Street today.

PCC CI Event - July - CBI HQ - PRESS RELEASE here http://bit.ly/kpwVvX Lean Management Journal article here http://bit.ly/kt7pwo

PCC Feature in the Lean Management Journal - see the full article here http://bit.ly/kt7pwo

PCC London Event on CI and Culture Change includes NHS theme, see the Press Release here http://bit.ly/kpwVvX

PCC London event includes NHS flavour - see the press release here http://bit.ly/kpwVvX

July CONFERENCE;
From Lean, Six Sigma and Continuous Improvement to "Sustainable Improvement" - through Culture Change http://bit.ly/hTNGaT

Culture Change Event - Beyond Continuous Improvement to Sustainable Improvement.
London - July - 4 weeks left to book! http://bit.ly/hTNGaT

Communication effects motivation effects productivity effects profit - and it needed a study! http://bit.ly/k0eYuB

Qashqai must sell - price dropped to £11500 - all offers considered - full details on Ebay here http://t.co/lDFFsPp

Is Speaking in London in July on the topic of applying rigour to culture change, psychologically. Details here http://bit.ly/hTNGaT

Is very proud of his wife for being more than half way to her 'black belt' in Shotokan Karate - even if he's too busy working to show it. x

Qashqai must sell - price dropped to £11500 - all offers considered - full details on Ebay here http://bit.ly/iHAKMi

Really enjoyed speaking at the OpEx Summit in Milano yesterday! Great to share the stage with Carey 'Vixen' Lorenz - 1st female F14 pilot

Qashqai on sale on Ebay http://bit.ly/lpWU6I

Japan's car production plunges due to parts shortages http://bbc.in/m0B6nn

A 'Thank you' to Jane and all at the Lean Management Journal, it's great to be 'published' http://www.leanmj.com/

Great article - http://ping.fm/B8vKA

Jamies Food Revolution - is it me, or has "the land of the free" become the "land of the repressed?" That School Gov. was terrified of the State .... what are they hiding?

The Oval on Sunday! thanks to Weston Homes & guests from Virgin Media, Marshalls and QinetiQ for making it a great day. http://bit.ly/kMOt4S

Is looking forward to cricket from the exec box at the oval tomorrow with some key customers.

"It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right."

source unknown

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

-- Maria Robinson

"Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze
inward. Correct yourself and your world will change."

-- Kirsten Zambucka

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

-- Michael Jordan

10 Ted Talks that will transform your career http://ping.fm/8pgJX

Top 150 Management and Leadership blogs http://ping.fm/R1s8R

"The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything."

-- Edward Phelps

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself" Leo Tolstoy

Leadership network, free to join for lean thinkers and change management professionals http://bit.ly/aXdoVF

great minds think alike! leadership strategies and lean thinking come together http://ping.fm/ngpxu

Milan looking good in June http://bit.ly/dO64rz Now excited about London - some great names lining up to speak and sit on the expert panel!

PCC Event Announcement; Milan 9th June. "A Frictionless world" LMJ media partners, Xonitek Op Ex partners; details here http://bit.ly/dO64rz

"The shell must break before the bird can fly."

-- Tennyson

"Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar."

-- Bradley Miller

Organisational change - Ringing the changes http://ping.fm/oCFeX

Google's Global Operations Processes and Systems Manager presenting at The Federazione delle associazioni scientifiche e tecniche

Federazione delle associazioni scientifiche e tecniche, Milano June 9th 2011‏-A joint initiative between Xonitek and PCC

[13:54:08] Allan Edun: Continuous improvement initiatives and operational excellence event

We are pleased to announce the inclusion of Google's Global Operations Processes and Systems Manager presenting at The Federazione delle associazioni scientifiche e tecniche, Milano June 9th 2011‏

"I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code."

-- Unknown

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

-- William Arthur Ward

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."

-- Jon Hammond

"If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people."

-- Virginia Woolf

Phew, vat and tax all sorted, always a relief :-)

Branchout set to make facebook a professional networking site by connecting with LinkedIN and Twitter - http://ping.fm/DHhmt

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more of it I have."

-- Thomas Jefferson

Confidence is the greatest gift you can give a child

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

-- e.e. cummings

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."

-- Charles R. Swindoll

lost in translation http://ping.fm/djAjh

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."

-- Sir Winston Churchill

"Art is the act of navigating without a map."

-- Seth Godin

Sir Ken Robinson on changing Education Paradigms http://ping.fm/yAT5u fantastic!

"A problem well stated is a problem half solved."

-- Charles F. Kettering

our life's a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear its troubles patiently. - Palladas (4th Century Alexandria)

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

-- Napoleon Bonaparte

http://ping.fm/S3yI0 11 mins worth watching, and the comments show the true depth of the challenge ahead

"The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have."

-- Anonymous

New Year's inspiration - "Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according
to the measure of thy desire."

-- Arab proverb