How is your organisation designed to get undesirable results from your staff?
I recently had a fascinating experience in a Moscow hotel room. No – not what you might be thinking. On […]
Are we doing the work that is needed or the work that is comfortable?
“Taking a new step or uttering a new word is what people fear most.” Dostoyevsky I notice how quite frequently […]
What do you think they think of you? The stories that derail us
Some years ago, I was called (at less than 24 hours notice) to facilitate a meeting at short notice between […]
Here be dragons: Leading in complex times
Think about a big challenge you are addressing: a current situation that matters, where you know something qualitatively different is […]
An introduction: the future of leadership
The New Year is when we look to the future – not just to the year ahead, but often to […]
The win-win-win of experiential leadership programmes
In any business, understanding your return on any particular investment is paramount if you are to assess it’s effectiveness to […]
Changing the rules of the game: Culture
I recently read a great story about a softball game in which one player injured herself when going for a […]
Generation Y as Generation WHY
Generation Y is soon becoming the largest generational cohort in the workforce. As Gen WHY, they are motivated by a […]
Purposeful Patriotism
On a long drive last year, I found myself listening to a classical music radio station, and to one of […]
Putting Values to the Test
Our November newsletter spoke about values and how we work with them everyday. The theme can be interpreted in many […]
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 […]
Reassessing how a values systems drive performance
I’ve spent many happy weeks facilitating in Fontainebleau, France, over the past two years. We have been delivering an executive […]