October 1, 2017
Meetings are an essential part of organisational life, yet research suggests that just 40% of CEOs’ meetings achieve their objectives. Try the following tips for a more successful outcome next time. The objective: Clarify the purpose of the meeting. Is it decision-making? Information sharing? Brainstorming? Planning? You should be…
September 19, 2017
Meetings aren’t going away. Their length and frequency has increased over the past 50 years and executives now spend an average of 23 hours per week in them. In the 1960s it was 10 hours a week. Meetings are a necessary part of organisational life but they feel endless when…
September 18, 2017
Each week I gather up the news published by those I follow on Twitter. Click here to see may Weekly Twitter Round Up.
September 12, 2017
We tend to think of organisations as rational places. Places in which decisions are made on the basis of external, observable data. Of course, they are partly that. But organisations are also emotional, chaotic, political and anxiety provoking places: they are both emotional and emotion generating. We rarely return…
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.
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…
August 30, 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSDeIqEK1Z4
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 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…
October 29, 2015
I keep returning to Margaret Heffernan’s TED talk on constructive and creative conflict. Her invitation (one with which I agree) is to consider conflict a creative conversation about difference. More than that she goes further – how about surrounding ourselves with people who are different to us…it’s a challenging concept.…
