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Help Wanted – Book Review

This funny and insightful book takes us backstage to the ‘movement’ (aka warehouse logistics) team in a large department store. Here we are introduced to each team member and how they react to the news that the store manager is moving on and the implications of this for internal succession ...

Leadership, Organisational Change, Organisational Design

Distributed Leadership

Imagine this… A teenager lies unconscious in the sand dunes of a North Devon Beach. He is barely breathing and he is cold to touch ...

Summer School

Is your organisation playing ‘Whack-a-Mole’ decision making?

At a recent meeting we attended, participants talked about the organisational challenges they were facing. One person pointed to a strategic paralysis at Executive level ...

Summer School

What does it take to shift our culture?

If Peter Drucker’s adage that culture eats strategy for breakfast is right, why is it that we spend comparatively less time in being intentional about ...

Summer School

Reimagining leadership

How do you define leadership? It’s a tough question. Despite the plethora of publications, programmes and podcasts we have no single narrative to define leadership. ...

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How well do you contain the anxiety of others?

We live in unprecedented times or Megachange as Darrel West calls it. Megachange points to a great inflection point in human history - where the ...

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Making your conversations count

In her book, Conversational Intelligence Judith Glaser proposes that conversational competence is critical to priming the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. The quality ...

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Are you a trust builder?

In organisations, the importance of trust is multi-faceted. Recent World Economic Forum research points to CEO concerns that falling trust in their organisations will hinder ...

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Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?

One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are ...