The fastest and best way to build a creative culture is to have lots of creative people together. No kidding. […]

We were all born as questions. The old saying that ‘children enter school as question marks and leave as full […]

Behavioural/cultural shaping in organizations does not scale up by the leaders simply having the right mindset and motivation. A mechanism […]

Where is home? Ask this question to an Irishman or Irish woman. Even if they have been living abroad for […]

Over the years, I have had lots of conversations about ‘corporate culture’ and in particular  ‘what to measure’. I must […]

This is the request we make at the beginning of a Viral Change™ programme. Forget your function and your hierarchical […]

My friends, monks of a Benedictine monastery in the Highlands, Scotland, spend most of the time in silence. I mean, […]

In my work as Organization Architect, I have dealt with clients of many sizes, shapes and colours over the years. […]

In organizational life we are used to the dichotomy ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom up’, for example, when we talk about change. […]

Organizations have traditionally used a three-legged approach to creating a ‘culture’: Communications, training and compliance. None of those in isolation […]

It seems to be very hard for people to get away from the idea that, if we just put individuals […]

I have been researching for a while the not-that-easy topic of ‘cognitive mental frames’ or ‘mental models’ that take over […]

Serious behavioural change? Start with micro-behaviours, then walk backwards to values, never the other way around. And bring peer-to-peer or […]

Can we work on the collective and reward the individualistic? Well, sure you can, it happens every day. But it’s […]

If I were the one in charge of deciding the ‘person of the year’ for the front cover of Time […]

I said previously that large scale mobilization of people (AKA social movements, AKA company culture) needs a platform. They don’t […]

When I was young, very young, many moons ago, I remember my school mates and the priests having discussions such […]

I wish I could remember where I read these stats.  Russia under the Tsar 1914-1917…had 180 million peasants and workers […]

It is said that in any organization, 20% of the people do 80% of the work. I often think that […]

It’s a new world out there. You’ll realise this truth if you open the windows of your organization and let […]