Learning from others In the 4th century B.C. the Greek historian Herodotus wrote “The Histories”, an account of the Greco-Persian wars. It was the first time anybody had documented events from existing records. So it earned Herodotus the title “The Father of History”. In it he recounts a story about Darius the Great, King of […]
Awkward Stakeholders
The interview I interviewed somebody the other day. I prepared by googling the “Top 10 questions to ask at an interview”. In at number 4 was the classic awkward stakeholder question. I tried it out. This is how it went… Question 1. How do you influence stakeholders? The interviewee jumped up, grabbed a white board […]
Taking the Sting out of Failure
The failure A couple of years ago I had a workplace nightmare. I was pushing a big initiative and I needed it to be a success. I had my boss’s boss on my back and the project was going belly up. It was all very unpleasant. There were a few rays of light. A couple […]
How Netflix Reinvented H.R.
Harvard Business Review Patty McCord It would be wrong to hold one group totally accountable for an organisation’s culture, but I think the good people in H.R. have a big part to play. They set the rules that employees live by. If I am right and H.R. has such a powerful role, why do most […]
Can You Buy Better?
Organisational Change There are a couple of ways an organisation can improve: 1. It can change its strategy A company can change what it does. This type of change is sometimes called a “stroke of the pen change”, because any chief executive can, with enough money, make it happen. It could be a change in product […]
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