Continuous Improvement: The big juggle

by | Jun 13, 2023

A common fallacy in team working is the assumption that productivity and continuous improvement are strongly correlated, meaning that when one improves so does the other. In fact, we need to juggle both at the same time, and that means paying attention to the subtle...

Organisational Radical Candor FTW

by | Apr 6, 2023

Cerys explores missed opportunities for radical, two-way discussions L&D are avoiding in their quest for simple, KPI-friendly projects. It is both a cliché and a truism that change is hard and that it never ends. And whilst trying to make employees feel safe,...

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...