Running events with large groups of people, attention to detail counts: Getting the room right, making sure the sound system is set up properly (often overlooked by venue owners), people's individual …
Agile organisations need agile people
Many leaders want their organisations to be more agile, to be more responsive to change and opportunity, to be lighter on their feet. Part of that is to do with processes and systems—slimming them …
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Risk-free innovation—is there such a thing?
Thought-provoking experience recently... Organisation declines to do something new because success is not guaranteed—yes, guaranteed. To be fair... If you set-up a service to deliver or support …
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Top-down or bottom-up?
Which is the best way of running organisations? Answer: Neither. We need both, if we want the best results and an engaged team. Top-down for direction and accountability, bottom-up for energy and …
Are you pushing away the very thing you’re trying to achieve?
You might be. Or you might be pushing away the very people you hope to attract. You see... It’s all very well setting an intention about what or who we want—and we do need to do that—but we also …
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Straightening out your business
In program and project management, people talk about “straightening out the program,” meaning to set it on an orderly basis, with dependencies between one task and another, and resource availability …