Fail, Learn and Repeat. Or not really?

by | Feb 7, 2023

Should we always encourage failure-as-learning, and when might this risk de-motivate individual contributors, asks Sebastian Kowalski in this Link*Log Learning by iterating is not the same as accepting overall failure At this point, most team leads have been told many...

As our world burns, is it time for digital sobriety?

by | Jul 18, 2022

Uncomfortable truths With the climate emergency literally on our collective doorstep, many of us (except perhaps for climate change deniers or the 1%) are reassessing our consumption patterns and trying hard to reduce our carbon footprint – not for abstract...

Between Two Worlds

by | May 6, 2022

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...

Our Global Moment of Liminality

by | Mar 15, 2022

  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...

It’s Highly Illogical, Captain

by | Jul 12, 2021

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,...