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The future of culture

The future of culture

Tribal expulsion, anyone?Culture is the binding agent that endeavours to minimise wasteful friction within a social group. If you want to be part of this group you will need to behave in a particular manner. And if you don’t, you will be drummed out of the tribe. Knowing that tribal expulsion was a death sentence […]

Leading change – why transformation efforts fail

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Harvard Business Review published an article, by management thought leader John Kotter, of the same title back in 1995. The mid-nineties was a more innocent era. Google and Facebook had yet to be conceived. Netflix and Amazon were in nappies. The thrust of the HBR article was on the management errors that were likely to […]

The super-resilient organisation

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Unlike resilience, super-resilience doesn’t just look to endure the storm, but to grow stronger because of the tumultuous experience. Resilience is good, but it makes for a stressful / miserable existence if the storm never ends. It’s not over There is a sense that we are emerging from the irregularity and disruption of the Covid-19 […]

Hybrid working – It’s complicated!

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One would imagine that it’s a ‘no brainer’. Let people work where they can be most productive.But there are a few complications:The industrial factory model, underpinning many organisations today, focuses more on human activity than productivity.The industrial factory model, which is typically underpinned by a contract rather than trust, means that bosses would prefer to […]

What’s wrong with HR?

MisperceptionsIt is not uncommon to hear business leaders expound on the importance of talent management. But the truth is that if HR is not in the top team, then talent management is no more important than stationery management.The reality is that HR in the top team is a rarity, particularly in organisations birthed in the […]

What’s wrong with employee wellness?

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Achilles’ heel? Employee wellness, or workplace wellness, is an established and lucrative approach to improving the ‘mean time between failure’ of the organic components of your business model. Humans have always been a ‘weak point’ in the industrial era factory. Increasing market disruption and the consequent uncertainty has put this model under tremendous stress. As […]

How to be more intelligent

Vitruvian man

The 4 FsAccording to evolutionary biologists, all life forms exhibit the same four drives. These being to fight, flee, feed and ‘reproduce’. I would add ‘freeze’, and in relation to social animals, ‘friend’ (verb). Everything our ancestors did and everything we do today is underpinned by these instinctive motivations.In essence, human existence boils down to […]

It’s time to escape the Matrix

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It’s a long story Things started to go downhill for mankind around 12,000 years ago. Some bright spark worked out how to domesticate seed and thus began our foray into the world of genetics. More recently, we domesticated animals, thus further exerting our dominance over our fellow cohabitants. These agriculture revolutions enabled us to produce […]

Disruption has come to save you

Business Transformation

Humans are beautiful. They can somehow balance on their hindlegs, brachiate, create music, make life-changing discoveries and cooperate at scale. After millions of years of neural conditioning, it is no wonder that we have become the dominant species on the planet. Brave men run in our family You are amazing because you come from a […]

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