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Public Spend and Riding a Bike: A Fresh Look at Successful Buyer-Supplier Relationships
In this Spend Matters article, Editor JP Morris cross refers to a Public Spend Forum podcast, but with some added flavour of his own on rethinking the buyer-supplier relationship. The truth is, he reports, that having the knowledge about something doesn’t mean that you can understand it enough to use it effectively. He refers to the Backwards Brain Bicycle as an example: 'cyclist trying to ride a bike that steers opposite from the way we typically ride a bike. Turn right and this bike goes left. Turn left and it goes right.' The point is that the rider has to 'unlearn' all the complex reactions your brain calculates to ride a bike. So, sometimes we need to unlearn the typical biases we have and to retool our thinking to what we really want to accomplish. Read more here.
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