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...
16 Feb 2017 | Management, Productivity, Trust |
Autonomy motivates performance There is a lot of evidence for the effectiveness of freedom or autonomy as a motivator of the kind of performance and attitude that business leaders want to see (see ‘Drive’ by Dan Pink for some of it), and it’s not a new idea. Indeed,...
18 Nov 2015 | Culture, Management |
You could spend all day every day reading advice about how to be a better manager of people. We’ve set managers an impossible task and it’s time we stopped beating them up about failing to get everything right all of the time. Managing people is about creating the...
