Trust or control? Imagine a scenario where your employees keep on changing things. All in the name of improvement and innovation. Everybody is spending time making your organisation run that little bit better. It sounds great, a management nirvana, until you realise that they are tinkering with processes, messing with procedures and running roughshod over […]
Brilliance Alone Won’t Take You Far
The land grab In the 17th and 18th centuries the European superpowers; Britain, Spain, France, Portugal and the Netherlands were racing to conquer the world. They were hell bent on colonising the Americas, Africa and Asia for themselves. The Europeans were engage in a land grab of monumental proportions. The colonies were dependant on the […]
A Bum Question
360-degree feedback Does my bum look big in this? If you have ever been asked that question, you know there are two types of answer. A right and a wrong one. The wrong answer has many variants… Yes — too brutal Try a bigger size — too honest I think it is the colour — […]
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 […]
Everybody Cheats
Who can you trust? When I was a small boy, the most exciting thing in the world was a day trip to London with my father. I was brought up in a field in deepest Yorkshire. The big smoke was amazing. It had museums, skyscrapers, underground trains, toy shops, galleries and ice cream. Best of […]
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