Collaboration – Innovation
You are maybe awash with extrovert Ted talk types in your innovation and collaboration teams but every group needs an introvert to get it done. Every group of people from a nursery to an old age home will have a…
Read More An introvert’s guide to innovation and collaboration workshops
Ironman is a rather well know series of films about a guy (Tony Stark) with a metal suit which flies, has advanced AI and he lives his life like a corporate James Bond. It’s also a cautionary tale about the…
One’s boring old fashioned, clean and tidy and wears a nice suit, the other’s messy, shaggy haired and goes to burning man. How will they ever get along? Simple answer; it’s the business model and the culture. Throughout the years,…
Read More The Odd Couple – Getting Designers and Consultants to get along
If you work in collaboration or event design or facilitation or anything similar, you will probably recognise the following scenario; a client or a colleague arrives at your desk/office/bean bag and says ‘I need a workshop, here is the agenda, can…
Read More How to design a 1 day workshop in 10 minutes and 10 reasons why you shouldn’t.
The changing dynamics of how and where we work, are changing what people need in a leader. Leaders used to inspire, inform and create an atmosphere. Do they do so now, and do you even need them to? At some…
Read More Leadership in 2017: The end of corporate leadership and the Machiavelli matrix.
Some companies are making the disruption and some are benefiting from it. They aren’t mutually exclusive, so in a period where there is some big stuff happening, how do the little guys line up behind it? Rather wonderfully, driverless electric…
Yesterday, the Iceland football team qualified for the World Cup in Russia ahead of Croatia, Turkey and the Ukraine and in doing so became the smallest ever country to achieve that feat. Iceland has 330,000 people, almost non-existent football league, a…
Read More The Icelandic Football team’s guide to Digital Transformation
The world economic forum have published a fantastic article about how 98% of children are ‘creative geniuses’ when they are in kindergarten but that this skill is reduced dramatically as they go through the formal schooling system where at age…
Read More Kindergarten Con(sultant) – developing corporate creativity
In a future world with increased urbanisation, huge disruption due to climate change, a series of ‘judges’ double as police, jury, judge and executioner to make immediate decisions on crimes and conduct immediate remediation up to and not limited to…
Read More Judge Dredd: Judge, Jury and Execution of leading practice Agile
I am a management consultant of 15 years and in that time, there is only one immutable truth. That which says that everything can be structured, rolled up into a framework, split into a method, repurposed as training materials and…
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