Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’
Conversations around Self Managed Teams
In conversations whilst planning new ways of working for sales organisations, one of the team surfaced maxims from Myron Rogers, a leader in systems thinking. Reminded the team of how Self Managed Teams can and will thrive. • People own what they help create • Real change happens in real work • Those who do…
Read More70% of change programs fail to achieve their stated goals. What do we need to do differently?
Time to choose a different approach. You are about to implement your company’s new strategy, and this will require you to shift people’s behaviour, change what they do and how they have been working to date. So what approach will you take? A ‘directive’ approach or a ‘collaborative’ approach? Analysis from some of the largest…
Read MoreWhy the carrot or the stick?
It’s an open question to you the reader. Why are we attempting to motivate the 21st century knowledge worker, interacting in increasingly complex environments in the same way since the 19th century? As business leaders we have more than four decades of scientific research on human motivation available to us, yet there has been…
Read MoreNearly died this morning – no joke
Its mid-January and on Lac Leman in Switzerland it’s a clear sunny morning and +1.5°. A great morning for a row with my mate Craig. Forty-five minutes later I find myself upside down in 5°water, my feet trapped in my form fitting rowing shoes, and the first thing that pops into my head is the…
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