An Experience of ‘How to Sharpen the Sword’
…practice and check-in and check-out. In addition, we gave each other assessments as candidly as we will be asking leaders from the client system to practice. We also practised how…
Organisation
…productive capacity through what is often referred to as ‘the future of organisational design’: communities of practice. They are groups of professionals who share a passion for what they do,…
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…
A new way of finding the Emerald City – a fresh approach to sustainability
…its many applications, we find it particularly helpful when working with clients to embed sustainability strategies in their organisations. Sustainability leaders will be familiar with the complex and competing stakeholder…
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?”…
Business Partnering
The world of business is increasingly complex and competitive. Leaders seek ever-increased performance and higher customer service – but with an ever-dwindling resource base they are looking for ways to…
Women in engineering: a radical thought
Have we designed women out of engineering / manufacturing working environments? A 2013 study by researchers at Ohio State University confirmed something we probably already knew – the Matilda Effect…
Philips Business Partnering
…the business positively Felt more equipped and courageous to influence the business agenda Practiced and implemented new ways of working in the business. Philips Business Partnering Advanced Program Experienced…
Here be dragons: Leading in complex times
…are caught in the drama of organisational and community life it often feels intensely personal and situation-specific. And yet there are predictable patterns that teams, communities and organisations blindly and…
What’s next for YOUR organisation?
…known. Our adaptation to this reality calls strongly for new strategies and new ways of seeing. That is why we ran a one day workshop – Making Teal Real: how…
Don’t be naïve about the shift to teal
…give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.” The three breakthroughs are an…
The first step to leading innovation
…be reinventing air travel, or building a totally new way for people to access the internet (requiring more than simply the design of a slick new tablet), so, let’s say…