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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...
Agile for All
Some reflections on the path agile is taking to adoption through organisations, drawing on some recent experiences and pain points. When organisations begin exploring agility as a key capability, there is a fairly well trodden path of discovery, until efforts stall...
Online Identity & Trust-Building 101
In this edition, Livio considers some of the basic steps that leaders need to take to improve their visibility and credibility using digital workplace platforms. Friends reunited Last week, we invited our friend Katharina Krentz to introduce a selected management...
Colleague-First Experiences: Another Management Conundrum
Some reflections on EX, the role of managers in creating colleague-first experiences and the challenge of relentless change for all. Investment in colleague-centricity is finally catching up to customer-centricity. We have many more conversations with our clients...
Thanks For The Memory
This week, Livio digs into the central role that memory plays in all aspects of our work, as well as wider society. Memory is a powerful factor in shaping both individual and collective perceptions of pretty much everything we do, but in our field we often take its...
Learning, ‘Teachability’ and the Power of Evolutionary Trial & Error
Some reflections on the changes underway in executive education and the link to 'un-thinking' learning organisations and artificial intelligence. Learning and teachability In some ways, the pandemic lockdown has improved my travel and exploration of the world. I used...
It’s Highly Illogical, Captain
This week, Livio shares some thoughts and links on our brain's ability to make rational decisions and retain knowledge in the face of evolutionary and cognitive challenges. Behaving like apes Like many others in Europe, I recently took part in some tentative,...
Permission To Be Different
Cerys shares links and insights into teams and leadership, inspired by the launch of a major collaborative project. This week, much of our time has been occupied with the launch of a new collaborative squad, with ambitious goals, combining the Post*Shift team, a...
The Fabric of the Org is Links Not Bricks
This week we look forward to the looming battle between office and "remote" working and ask what we can learn from Reddit and gamers about collaboration. Ronald Coase Reversed Earlier this week, I completed the content planning phase for an extensive leadership...