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
If you are unaware, there is a particularly joyless thread of religion known as Calvinism where everyone’s future status in the afterlife is predestined and essentially, regardless of what you do you will be end up in the same state.…
The modern corporate environment is changing rapidly and whilst we are all scrambling to adapt, there is one nationality who act in a way already suited perfectly to 2018. You might be surprised, but right now, best practice is French.…
Read More Bring me my wine: a guide to being French at work and why that’s a good thing.
I was fortunate enough to be in attendance at the weekend when the unfancied Scotland bettered their rugby playing counterparts from the south by 25 points to 13. This is a result worth noting because 1) it’s the first time…
Read More First or Worst: a lesson in risk taking from the Scottish Rugby Team
Digital is disrupting everything and this includes the recruitment process. Some corporates are going so far as to remove the academic requirements as entry criteria to rely more thoroughly on their own tools to assess talent. What are the unintended…
Read More Recruitment in 2017: The Digital Diversity Dilemma
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
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.
Consultants are now designers, designers are now consultants, an operating model is now a service design, are you a technologist or a CX delivery consultant? It’s all getting wonderfully mixed up so maybe it’s time to recognise that putting people…
Say what you like about Darth Vader, he ran a tight ship. He was consistently results driven and he delivered feedback (usually fatal) in a timely manner rather than wait for the Death Star half yearly appraisals. I also never…
Read More Darth Vader’s approach to a two speed Digital corporate culture
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