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Collaboration – a game of snakes and ladders?
One of the strangest pieces of research we have come across was published in the Harvard Business Review: ‘Adults behave better when Teddy bears are in the room’. The research suggests that…
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Unleash your leader – A Book Review
Don’t be put off by the somewhat adolescent title of this gem of a book. Unleash your leader contains some essential truths every leader needs to know. As consultants, we are often…
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Being fearless
This is the headline statement of an excellent new book called The Fearless Organisation by Amy Edmondson a Professor at Harvard Business School. I have long been an admirer of her research…
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How do you bring insight?
I often hear from organisational leaders that we need to move from providing information to discovering insights. It’s a seductive thought. We have information overload, but where are the rubies in the…
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Secrets to success?
We don’t usually go for these lists of supposed ‘secrets’ but we quite like this one. In a 3-minute TED talk, analyst Richard St John distils 500 interviews with successful people into…
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The importance of asking “why?”
Simon Sinek encouraged us to Start With Why and, more recently is offering to help us Find Our Why. The subtext of each of these books is all about inspiring others to take action,…
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What is the most important skill for the future?
I recently attended a CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) event this autumn. CIM had surveyed over 500 leading professionals in the City and had asked them what is the most important skill organisations…
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Do you value your snowflakes?
No, this is not a pejorative use of ‘snowflake’ to take a poke at the perceived fragility of younger people. Take a look at this 80-second clip from David Attenborough’s ‘Frozen Planet’.…
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Unlocking the X Factor to deliver organisational change
The 2015 CIPD Learning and Development Survey[i] found that a top priority for leadership development was to equip leaders to drive culture change in organisations. Since the survey was published this has…
