Work and meaning
In The Upside of Irrationality, Dan Ariely reflects on work and meaning. Can human beings find satisfaction and be engaged in work that pays well, but offers no meaning? He defines two “types” of...
View ArticleLeadership is about climate control, not command and control
In a new TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson (embedded below) he focuses on prevailing education systems and how they stifle learning and creativity. He eloquently makes the case that education is not a...
View ArticleThe tyranny of the moment
Warning! This post doesn’t contain 7 steps or 12 ideas, nor is it the ideal 600-800 word length … “The greatest tragedy in using speed as the answer to complexity and the complexities of a work life,...
View ArticleThe restorative power of meaning
In an article in the Time magazine (26 June ed), Joe Klein writes poignantly about how regaining a sense of purpose through public service is helping US military veterans and returning troops to find...
View ArticleOne sure-fire way to poison your culture
Sometimes I come across ideas in business that are just so counter-productive that I really cannot understand how they ever became accepted practice. One such idea that I’ve seen wreak havoc on...
View ArticleThe soft stuff has become the hard stuff
The Gallup State of the Global Workplace report was released recently, containing employee engagement results per country. The results are generally pretty dismal, an indictment on the prevailing...
View ArticleConnectivity or coupling: keep Goldilocks in mind (Building resilience:...
My mother always said that nothing with a “too” in front of it is good. That is certainly true about connectivity, too little and too much can be equally detrimental. High levels of connectivity can...
View ArticleOf jungles and zoos
I recently posted a tweet that created an unexpected enthusiastic response. It read: “It’s hard to survive in the jungle if you were trained in a zoo” I love using metaphors and analogies to explain...
View ArticleJungle vs Zoo – Reflections on change and resilience
In my previous post I introduced the analogy of a jungle vs a zoo to help us make sense of the complex contexts we face and the often ordered organisational structures and processes we tend to create....
View ArticleAll that jazz … making coherence coherent
One of the assertions I make quite often nowadays, is that we need to move from focusing on alignment, to focusing on coherence. I’ve found it interesting that out of all the potentially controversial...
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