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- Making Sense of Complexity: the Personal and the Systemic by John Watters 15/05
- The first step to leading innovation by Nick Putnam 24/04
- We are all made of stardust by Tim Stanyon 19/04
- Democracy at work: Culture 2.0? by Miranda Ash 12/04
- Are you due for a cultural detox? by Cari Caldwell 01/04
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Balancing the individual with the whole: Lessons from Greece
George Papandreou. One would guess he’s a popular subject amongst the internal comings and goings of the G20 and perhaps synonymous with the words “uncertainty” and “instability” within his own country. But given the most recent developments in Greek politics, … Continue reading
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A course of action
A course of action At the crossroads I stared down all the roads and saw More crossroads. What does any single choice matter when the outcome is just Another choice? And I hesitate, perhaps fatally. Of course this is a … Continue reading
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Connecting Silos: The Missing Link
Improving regularity of communications, tightening role descriptions, clarifying products and plans… Do these sound like tried and tested actions to solve communication and accountability issues across silos within a business? In this article, Tim uses his experience from working with a particular client to suggest that these actions alone are hardly sufficient and provides insight into making your efforts more effective. Continue reading
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How to get agile without losing participation? Our latest experiment
Realising that your own organisation has started to drift can be a sobering experience for any executive team. For Future Considerations, this sparked a continuing experiment in organisational design in an effort to maximise contribution, make the best decisions and enhance learning, both for ourselves and for our clients. Mark sets the scene in this article and outlines the most recent developments in the evolution of our own company. Continue reading
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Overcoming inclusion paralysis – generating involvement with efficiency
Ensuring decision buy-in from team members can be one of the most difficult tasks a leader has to face and often a choice emerges to include no one, or include everyone. Cari reflects on the first step as to how teams who operate with a freedom-centred (or democratic) ethos work with and address this idea of “including everyone”. Continue reading
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