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The ‘expectations muddle’ of empowerment has different shapes and flavours: I expect you to do something but you don’t think […]
Continuing my revised 12 laws of social change at a scale. Very simple laws apply to any large scale change including the […]
My revised 12 rules of social change at a scale. These very simple laws apply to any large scale change […]
I like the concept of reinvention, renewal, or transformation. But I like most the concept of rebooting! Organizations, teams, groups, […]
The Self-Proclaimed Saviours will never save you since their only intent is their personal success. It happens in society and […]
A client, senior manager, mentioned to me recently that his company spent a disproportionate amount of time ‘getting ready’. He […]
Sustainability of change, of cultural initiatives, of well intentioned corporate improvements is the key challenge. We are all quite energetic […]
In this model, the employee (1) is an activist, (2) largely working peer-to-peer, and (3) progressing towards (if not arriving […]
Here is a ‘very novel’ concept. Employee Engagement is needed because… it’s good in and of itself. Because work enhances […]
This is model 4 of the series. The concept is simple. Imagine that you, as an employee, are in reality an […]
This is model 3 (but the 4th post, confusing!) ‘The Cause’. Employees join forces to work on a Cause: green agenda, corporate […]
This is model 2 in the pack of 6 that I have described. There is a book, or two, and its […]
Model 1 of my 6 is what I call, ‘Air time’. It translates into: ‘we recognise that employees’ views are not properly […]
‘For every problem, the Victorians have a building’. For every idea that we need to carry forward, we invent an […]
A few years ago, the BBC broadcast a series called ‘How we built Britain’, presented by the veteran David Dimbleby. […]
In WWII there was a curious episode of an injection of critical thinking, not entirely well publicised. Big bomber airplanes […]
The difference between the critical thinker and the un-critical one is not a difference in IQ, or mental strength, or […]
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, a 19th century Swiss mathematician is remembered by many things in his scientific turf, but by one […]
The process of creativity can be very messy. In fact, it is perhaps necessarily messy. Like the artist’s workshop. The […]
Company: Where companions are. Companion = com + panis in Latin, that is with bread, sharing bread of food. ‘Travelling […]
