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Between Two Worlds
Thoughts on institutional upgrades, hierarchies versus networks, and re-wilding as an organisational design priority. This week’s ‘Lunch with the FT’ featured the social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, and he had some interesting things to say ($) about how mature...
What Does it Mean to Move From Projects to Products?
Cerys shares some great reads on the shift from project to product that accompanies agile transformation, and some hints for non-technical teams overwhelmed by the journey. As organisations work through the transformation efforts needed for increased agility, some of...
Just Another Bad Day at the Office?
In this edition, Livio reflects on the cognitive deficit of leaders, the undying corporate addiction to meetings, and why these are terrible for getting important stuff done. Reading & learning are not just ‘nice to haves’ There are plenty of reasons why time to...
Our Global Moment of Liminality
Cerys explores ways in which leaders can help individuals and organisations embrace this unique moment of liminality as we transition to new realities. A year ago, HBR shared an article on our opportunity to use the “prolonged time of trial” represented by the...
Going Beyond Platitudes in Teaching High-Performance Team Development
This week, Lee reflects on different approaches to teaching leaders how to build, support and run high-performance 'business agile' teams... Building high performance teams Recently, I have been reflecting on how to ‘teach’ the right combination of skills, techniques...
Leadership Development: Designing for Relevance
In this edition, we look at some common challenges faced by L&D functions when designing effective leadership development programs that deliver practical value in our ever-changing digital world. The L&D challenge Business leaders generally agree that, rather...
Scaling Trust Versus Trusting Code
Lee Bryant reflects on divergent visions for the future of the digital organisation. Towards digital organisations in 2022 🎉 2022 looks set to be a year of divergent visions of what a digital organisation means and how it is organised. Most things that matter in life...
Is Employee Engagement an Oxymoron?
With historically low engagement levels and employees leaving in droves, there is much for company leaders to be concerned about. Plus, three tips on treating your team as grown-ups. Do your people believe you any more? I recently spent some time reading Gallup’s...
Embracing Seasonality in Change Efforts
Some thoughts on long-haul change efforts and creating a more sustainable, seasonal approach. For years whilst providing coaching & mentoring, I have encouraged a cyclical, seasonal approach to tackling goals. Matching the overall energy levels & mood to how...
Teaching Leaders Product, Platform & Portfolio Thinking
Some thoughts on using product thinking and tools within leadership development programmes Emergent Exponential Effects One of the most exciting aspects of the digital economy is its exponential nature, and the fact that small ideas, products and teams can potentially...
Digital Adoption as a Driver for Change
Some notes and links on why top-down change initiatives still fail and some glimpses of a more emergent approach focussed on digital adoption. Plus ça change? It’s been exactly seven years since Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini argued that: 'continuous improvement...
Accelerating Leadership Development for Distributed, Hybrid & Remote Teams
Some thoughts on how we need to up our learning and development game when it comes to teaching and supporting managers in trying to succeed with hybrid working Business schools still playing catch-up The EdTech space is hot and getting hotter 🔥 both for direct to...