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Hello. I am concerned that John Seddon is a controversial figure about whom there has been significant criticism, and this page is entirely uncritical. The content, which I believe is accurate and which I am not criticising, has been entirely created by one person who works in a public relations capacity for John Seddon - Charlotte Pell, http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/charlotte-pell/13/8b3/102/ - and one Alice Moffatt, whose only contributions appear to have been the creation of this page.
Some of the more critical material on John Seddon found through a web search includes: http://www.leanblog.org/2010/10/the-one-where-john-seddon-lies-or-has-his-facts-very-very-wrong/ http://thinkpurpose.com/2012/09/16/john-seddon-is-not-systems-thinking-2/ http://seddonwatch.blogspot.co.uk/ (this one is pretty scurilous - and anonymous - so I don't think makes an appropriate wikipedia source) There have also been significant discussions in the local government press (Municipal Journal, Local Government Chronicle, and Public Finance), in articles, letters, and comments - some of which are behind paywalls but which are probably linkable.
If I find time, I will try to constructively edit the page, this note I suppose is a marker to others to say that there is an opportunity to balance this article more accurately.
Disclosure - I am Ben Taylor, author of the article I have posted as a link (NB this is a scholarly article and also behind a paywall - does this disqualify it?), and both a competitor and, to a large degree, a fan of John Seddon (and his company, Vanguard Consulting) - my details at http://www.linkedin.com/in/antlerboy Wushinbo (talk) 10:41, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Update/corrections to my comment above: 1) some of the Local Government Chronicle content is linked (but is paywalled) 2) a lot of the links are outdated (all the academic profile pages from universities seem to be dead, but I don't have time to remove) 3) it's been said to me that someone with a direct interest as the main creator of the page seems to have should not create a biography under wikipedia rules, so I will flag this on the biography discussion page Wushinbo (talk) 12:05, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
Charlotte Pell should NOT be editing this page, as she is directly associated with John Seddon:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/charlotte-pell/13/8b3/102 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mgraban (talk • contribs) 16:28, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
Two of the references for this section are behind a pay wall. The article states that Mr Walker said-
I would guess he said inconsistent rather than incontinent ? Can't check due to fore mentioned pay wall. Jonpatterns (talk) 13:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
He definitely says "incontinent". Link to article on lgcplus.com He also says
- which I thought was rather lovely :) . A "disinterested appraisal of corporate performance" sounds so much better than a "target"! MatthewMorris (talk) 12:15, 1 July 2014 (UTC)