September 11, 2017
I’ve created this Flipboard magazine on organisational behaviour. Click HERE to access. I’ll update it regularly with links to online resources. If you have any links you think I should include please let me know.
September 4, 2017
Have you ever wondered why hiring the wrong consultant might often be the right idea? It sounds like a contradiction; yet underlines how organizations may begin to recognize what individual members suspect without any proof besides gut intuition. How do you to manage the mounting pressure to deliver when all…
August 30, 2017
The film Glengarry Glen Ross depicts two days in the life of four salesmen in a real estate office in North America. A ‘trainer’ (Blake) played by Alec Baldwin is sent by the owners to motivate them to increase sales. Blake unleashes a torrent of abuse, yells and screams profanities…
November 16, 2016
I was invited to contribute a blog post to this fascinating series on Surviving Work over on the LSE Business Review. I wrote a short piece on what I term the ‘tyranny of satisfaction’. It’s everywhere…’good enough’ is no longer good enough. Expectations always exceed capacity to deliver and instead…
August 24, 2016
This short video from my UCD colleague Professor Niamh Brennan discusses culture and psychology in the board room. A useful primer for anyone sitting (or considering sitting) on boards.
June 24, 2016
…however much an organization officially celebrates out-of-box thinking, people are going to associate leadership and creativity the way they associate fish and bicycles. So being seen as a fount of innovation can be handicap for a leader. Unless you can trigger a different stereotype, by being exciting and inspiring. Now…
June 21, 2016
I’ve been interested in Professor Michael Wesch’s teaching methods for some time and have followed his use of social media in the classroom (via social media naturally). So I was fascinated to read this Chronicle of Higher Education piece on Wesch’s decision to ‘reboot’ on hearing that his ideas aren’t working…
June 20, 2016
I heard the two men talking about a third old man who had recently died. One of them said, “I was visiting him at his home. He started to tell me an amazing story about something that had happened to him when he was young. But it was a long…
March 30, 2016
I’m looking forward to hosting the European Regional Meeting of the ISPSO at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin this week. We will have 40 delegates who are interested in the unconscious at work discussing the meeting theme: Working from the periphery, leading from the edge. The meeting will be…
