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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

Is true grit what it’s all about?

Will “getting gritty” be one of your New Years’ resolutions? It might seem like a strange suggestion, but I’d like to explain why it’s mine. ...

Millennials@Work

Being fearless

This is the headline statement of an excellent new book called The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson a Professor at Harvard Business School. ...

Leadership, Unconscious Bias

How do you bring insight?

I often hear from organisational leaders that we need to move from providing information to discovering insights. It’s a seductive thought. We have information overload, ...

Unconscious Bias

Habitually resolving to be curious

For many of us new year = new start. Our minds turn to the list of things we plan to do, change, improve and discard ...

Unconscious Bias

Secrets to success?

n a 3-minute TED talk, analyst Richard St John distils 500 interviews with successful people into what he calls ‘8 secrets of success’. Click here ...

Leadership

The importance of asking “why?”

Simon Sinek encouraged us to Start With Why and, more recently is offering to help us Find Our Why. The subtext of each of these ...

Leadership, Organisational Change, Organisational Design

What is the most important skill for the future?

I recently attended a CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) event this autumn. CIM had surveyed over 500 leading professionals in the City and had asked ...