Put the New into the New Year
We are now well into the new year. As the days pass and you settle back into your routine, you may find yourself struggling to … Read more
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Addressing and Mastering “The Issue of Our Time”
“It's happening. In the last three weeks alone, Foxconn announced it will replace 60,000 factory workers with robots, a former CEO of McDonald’s said given rising wages, … Read more
Mastering Change
Change is not an unnatural phenomenon. On the contrary, it is entirely natural. Life is all about change. Evolution itself is a process of continuous … Read more
The Paradox of Change
“It takes a lot of learning to keep something stuck.” That was what Nora Bateson said at a recent development session I attended. Only a … Read more
Kill the Performance Review
Performance reviews remain in the news. Last week I wrote about Accenture’s abandoning them, but this week came the even more shattering news that GE … Read more
Beyond the Performance Appraisal
Perhaps you have heard that Accenture is abandoning performance appraisals. (If not, you can read about it here.) Whenever or however you learned this, you … Read more
Ban the Rule Books and Performance Management
If nobody ever sets out to do a bad job, why do we need to spend so much time and effort controlling how people do/did their work?
Values: The Power Behind Vision
“What is my vision for my organisation?” That’s the question I left you with last. So, how are you doing? Of course you are the … Read more