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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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Habitually resolving to be curious
For many of us new year = new start. Our minds turn to the list of things we plan to do, change, improve and discard in our lives. At my gym a…
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An unusual German New Year’s tradition
If you click on this link you will watch the most frequently repeated TV program of all time. It is a 1963 English comedy sketch called Dinner for One, starring Freddie Frinton and May Warden.…
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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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Illusion Slaying
The great writer, poet and philosopher Arthur Koestler once maintained that nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. We disagree. As OD professionals, we believe that part of our…
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The Knowing – Doing Gap in Diversity and Inclusion
The book ‘The Knowing – Doing Gap’, written by Professors Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton[1], is one of the great classics in management literature. The insights they share in this bestseller…
