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Getting lost in the organisational cave

by Seb Kowalski | Jul 25, 2023

Organisations generate rules and guidelines to govern behaviour and to avoid problematic outcomes, but over time these rules can chip away at the sense of ownership, autonomy and accountability that we want to see in a modern workplace. Getting the balance right is...

Change the system, change the culture

by Lee Bryant | Oct 25, 2018

The challenge of transforming large, complex organisations that have grown up around calcified hierarchies and process management structures is a hard one. There are no easy answers. It requires knowledge across various fields including technology, culture,...

Transformation is being held back by learned helplessness

by Cerys Hearsey | Dec 7, 2017

In this post, lead consultant Cerys Hearsey explores the barriers created by end-users learned helplessness with Enterprise Social Tools. In 2017, the enterprise collaboration space started to polarise around two approaches – the simplicity and focus on...

Cultural Intelligence Capabilities for Teams & Leaders

by Cerys Hearsey | Mar 2, 2017

The digital world is often described as flat; as a level playing field for companies where location has little to no influence on outcome. But inside large multinational companies the world is decidedly lumpy, with structural and cultural barriers inhibiting flatness...

The 5 Muscles You Need To Exercise For A Functionally Fit Culture

by Laura-Jane Parker | Oct 20, 2016

During the first half of 2014, I trained for and ran two half-marathons, back-to-back. This was a huge achievement for me as for the first time in my life, I didn’t get out of breath just from climbing stairs. Finally, I had become the holy grail of...