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Is your business change-enabled?

Is your business change-enabled?

8 Jul 2021 | Change management, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Uncategorized | 0 comments

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...
Let’s make all meetings optional!

Let’s make all meetings optional!

25 Aug 2020 | Change management, Culture, Management | 0 comments

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...
How to eliminate the bureaucracy that’s inhibiting your business’s adaptability

How to eliminate the bureaucracy that’s inhibiting your business’s adaptability

11 Mar 2020 | Change management, Culture, Inclusion, Leadership, Management, Productivity | 0 comments

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...
Don’t let hierarchy and bureaucracy hold your business back in 2020

Don’t let hierarchy and bureaucracy hold your business back in 2020

2 Jan 2020 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Productivity | 0 comments

The majority of companies are way too bureaucratic and hierarchical for their own good. They don’t use the assets and capabilities that they have effectively and are failing to achieve their true potential.  In fact, based on the work of Gary Hamel of the London...
Feeling the fear: why we must eradicate fear from the workplace

Feeling the fear: why we must eradicate fear from the workplace

24 May 2018 | Culture, Leadership, Management, Productivity, Trust | 0 comments

I was a newly commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force when I was asked to inspect a junior airwoman. It was a task that fell to me because I was the Duty Officer that night. The formal inspection was part of her punishment for breaking some rule or other. She was...
Warning! Managers aren’t the only thing ‘managing’ your people

Warning! Managers aren’t the only thing ‘managing’ your people

17 Oct 2017 | Culture, Leadership, Management | 0 comments

Too often when we read about ‘management,’ the focus is on the behaviour of individual managers. Management is about much more than that. As an employee, whilst you might have a good or bad relationship with your line manager, you probably also feel ‘managed’ by the...
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