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Even before the pandemic struck the world of work was changing, but slowly. The lock-down simply accelerated the process, breaking down the walls of the ‘presenteeism’ paradigm that existed unchallenged, for too long, in far too many organisations. Many independent knowledge workers long ago discovered the productivity advantages of working from home. Now, thanks to the pandemic & subsequent lock-down,…
Advice for leaders on how to get value from the Summer weeks.
Professional judgements are subject to ‘noise’ and it is louder than you think!
The technology that sits behind the vaccines that we hope will release the world from lock-down, nearly did not see the light of day. Katalin Kariko, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, spent 15 years investigating messenger RNA, the genetic material that acts as a kind of courier in the body, transporting recipes from our DNA to the cells…
It is evidently clear that personality traits vary from situation to situation. I have used the highly simplified equation; Personality + Situation = Behaviour to demonstrate this reality for many years. This shows that although personalities can be wide and varied, and of course influence how people respond, the other key variable is the situation they find themselves in. We…
Tim Gallway was the first person to coin the phrase the ‘Inner Game’ in his best-selling first book the Inner Game of Tennis, which sold over 2 million copies. Tim noted that there is always an inner game being played out in your mind, no matter what outer game you are playing. How aware you are about this inner game…
I think most of us were pleased to see the back of 2020! The leaders I spoke to, all shared their reality that 2020 was exhausting and personally challenging and they were looking forward towards 2021 in the hope that it turns out to be a little less stressful. Let’s see…. One of the legacies 2020 gave leaders are a…
We all have embedded psychological biases that pre-determine how we respond to familiar situations. Deciding to read this blog for example, some will click here and read on, some will not. The decision you take is driven by your curiosity and perceived value biases. The curious will get access to the value on offer, the time pressured miss out. It…
The Global Pandemic has redefined the ‘art of the possible’ for all of us. The fast and effective adoption of technology to enable virtual working is one Genie that will never go back into the bottle. Leaders and managers around the globe are looking to embrace this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and create a more agile, hybrid way of working. This has…
So, you want to change your organisations culture? Take a breath, what you are about to embark on is not easy, and is certainly not for the faint hearted. The prevailing paradigm will protect itself and it is more than capable of doing so. There are reasons, some of them still pertinent, as to why people behave the way they…
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