If an organisation is to survive and prosper, people within it must embrace change. And here is the paradox – many managers fail in their efforts to bring about change. Why is it that people give messages that they are open
Sometimes people misinterpret the latest thinking on leadership. And this can be easy to do – much of what we read on leadership promotes the need to empower people, and to involve them in decisions. Steve Simpson has a different
There is a fascinating new book available titled “The Wisdom of Crowds” by James Surowiecki. In what appears to be a counter-intuitive line of argument, the author proposes that if you want to make a correct decision or solve a
Nowadays, it ’s commonplace for people to report on how busy their workplace is. We’ve seen decades of cost cutting and increased efficiencies to a point where most of us are extremely stretched. A fascinating study conducted in 1973 however, might
Unwritten Ground Rules or UGRs are people’s perceptions of ‘this is the way we do things around here’. Incredibly, UGRs dictate people’s behaviour, yet they are rarely if ever discussed openly. Here, we take a deeper look at UGRs… When I