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
It’s really difficult to comprehend the argument that there is no absolute ‘reality’ – that each of us interprets events through our own experiences and inherent biases. We contends that this is indeed the case – and that in our
Much of the work on organisational culture is thwarted due to people’s lack of understanding of it We’ve written much about the fact that people cannot manage what they do not understand – and culture is often conceived only in complex
One of the exciting aspects of work is its capacity to help us learn from others. That very opportunity can also be a hazard however, if the collective thinking of an organisation acts to stifle. Here’s an example… A few years