The real issue at the heart of every development challenge
For most of the important developmental challenges your teams will face, it’s not skills gap and it’s not a knowledge gap that is holding them back. It’s about developing new mental models.
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How to break the outdated âfactory lineâ mentality of productivity
In the 1936 classic Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin plays a factory worker whose entire life revolves around tightening bolts on a relentless assembly line. Nearly a century later, the ghosts of that machine continue to haunt our workplaces.
How to prepare for a TED Talk
According to the National Social Anxiety Center (NSAC), âthe fear of public speaking is the most common phobia ahead of death.â Interestingly though, it’s not speaking that will kill you. It’s not being heard…
How to survive office bureaucracy and politics
Unclear hierarchies, untamed politics and unnecessary bureaucracy drain people’s time and energy.
Fixing hiring with Fit, Alignment & Add
Several years ago there was a wave within the HR community calling on people to stop hiring for âCulture Fitâ and instead hire for âCulture Addâ. It was well intentioned but I think it over-corrected.
What employees want: and why we keep getting it wrong
In the Mel Gibson movie âWhat Women Wantâ, Mel accidentally electrocutes himself and gains the ability to hear womenâs thoughts. In a shocking
The undiagnosed tension between learning and culture
We have a habit in the Western world of shifting responsibility on to the individual, rather than recognising the collective responsibility of creating
Men’s Health feature: How to deliver a killer presentation
If you pick up a copy of Men’s Health this October you’ll find a handy article written by our co-founder James packed with
I completed capitalism and all I got was a 4 day week
Almost 100 years ago, in 1930, the economist John Maynard Keynes estimated that his grandkids would work just 15 hours per week, with machines taking care of most tasks. So, how are we doing John?
A Rabbi, the Dalai Lama and a Culture Consultant walk into a bar
aka “What can Judaism teach us about belonging?”