8 Jul 2021 | Change management, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Uncategorized |
Change is tough We all know that changing organisations is tough, right? Organisations are complex systems and, whilst I’m always prepared to argue the case that people don’t resist change, I know that systems do. There’s still a lot of top-down planning for change...
25 Aug 2020 | Change management, Culture, Management |
It’s official – most meetings are a waste of time and money According to research in 2018*, the average SME employee attended 207 meetings every year, of which 139 (67 per cent) were considered a waste of time as they didn’t achieve the goal set. The same...
11 Mar 2020 | Change management, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Management, Productivity |
My last blog challenged leaders to stop hierarchy and bureaucracy holding their companies back in 2020. I also promised to provide some advice about how to overcome it, so this is the first of a series of articles addressing that challenge and providing advice about...
27 Jun 2018 | Change management, Culture, Innovation |
To be more successful, change cannot always be led from the top of an organisation. To respond to change quickly and effectively the way organisations change itself needs to change. I recently spoke at a conference on Growth through Transformation, where I contested...
29 Jul 2016 | Change management, Culture, Leadership, Management |
Have you ever wondered why, in spite of your best intentions and all of the evidence that they can make a huge different to a business’s results, the great initiatives you put in place to enhance the performance and happiness of your workforce don’t deliver the...
