How to survive office bureaucracy and politics
Unclear hierarchies, untamed politics and unnecessary bureaucracy drain people’s time and energy.
culture
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
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?”
Brilliant onboarding
69% of employees are more likely to stay with a company for three years if they experienced great onboarding and yet only only 12% of employees felt their company did a great job with onboarding.
We help design brilliant onboarding programs to help new employees settle in faster and feel included from before they even start.
Quiet quitting and the death of ambition
Company structures, expectations and norms do not align with current employee expectations. Most likely they never did. The key difference now is that employees are in a position to do something about it.Â
How to have better meetings.
Part 1: Information problems
Most of the advice we see aimed at helping to reduce meeting overload – tips like âblockout quiet time”, âhave an agendaâ or