Business Partnering
…in strategic “tearing”, wasted time, duplication, friction and ultimately poor client service and declining business results. At their best, Business Partners have real opportunity to “drive business impact”, as expressed…
Reinventing Leadership Development
…(September 2015) of Enlivening Edge. [1] “Integral Mindfulness, Collective Intelligence, and Collective Sentience: signposts to the later phases of our evolutionary journey,” by George Pór https://medium.com/collective-sentience/integral-mindfulness-collective-intelligence-and-collective-sentience-6494387126db Share this post:…
Are we doing the work that is needed or the work that is comfortable?
…those skills: our way of being. As for being comfortable, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. The insistence on comfort, “are we all comfortable with this?”, limits the…
Organisational restructures are a waste of time
…reward systems that influence people’s behaviour on a day-to-day basis – as “important” or “very important”. However, almost two-thirds of executives do not feel they are effectively driving the desired…
The quality of attention in a virtual world: MOOC MITx U.Lab
…42 Impact Hubs connected with it globally. In the current version U.Lab 2.0, the second live experiment (Sep-Dec 2015) there are now over 42,000 people taking part, including business leaders…
Putting Values to the Test
…what values look like from his/her own experience. This is their contribution. === “We can speak endlessly of values and how we have successfully applied them, but seeing values come…
The Longing for Meaningful Connection
…with others for the ‘commons of health and wellbeing’. Useful links: http://www.saybrook.edu/rethinkingcomplexity/rc-posts/map-meaning/ http://www.slideshare.net/ValuesCentre/john-kay https://futureconsiderations.com/wholeness-in-the-context-of-teal/ A version of this article was originally published online with Huffington Post UK Share this post:…
Involved in transformation? People love the iceberg model!
…‘levers’ they can pull. It often triggers new insight about what they’re experiencing and new ideas for how to intervene. “Where do we have permission, agency and appetite to experiment?”…
What is Business Partnering?
…function e.g. Finance, IT, HR, Legal, External Relations, who act as a connector, a bridge, linking functions and business units (at different levels sometimes including sometimes at C-suite level) to…
Leadership, Innovation and Purpose-led Growth
…as it was 20 years ago. “Today, we are in an age of disruption. Global crises challenge just about every aspect of society – finance, food, fuel, water, resources, poverty….
Overcoming inclusion paralysis โ generating involvement with efficiency
…role in our organization? :: What would the world/our customers lose if we didn’t exist? :: Why do we care about this? (Individually and collectively). (I find it helps to…
Reconsider the Future
…across the business world, UN and NGOs, such as https://unfccc.int/climate-action/race-to-zero-campaign and https://clubofrome.org/impact-hubs/climate-emergency/ . People talked about how the pandemic had made them even more aware of deeper systemic crises around…