Every senior leadership team is a concentrated version of the organisation around it. If the business is in flux or out of line, the team will be under pressure, whatever the individuals are like. I've come to treat this as the starting point for any team work,...
Almost every leadership team I see is quicker than it was a year ago, and being quicker hasn’t made most of them better. I’ve sat in enough rooms over the last twelve months to know the pattern: more work going out of the door, produced faster, by people who feel...
Gestalt is a German word. The closest translation is ‘whole’, ‘pattern’ or ‘form’. It has the sense that meaning cannot be found from breaking things down into parts but rather from the appreciation of the whole. In other words, Gestalt is a holistic process. It...
Back in the 1970s, less than 10 per cent of musicians in US orchestras were women. This had nothing to do with a feminine talent deficit it was more about unconscious bias and diversity. Major orchestra directors believed they were making rational decisions based on...
Last time, I began delineating the need for and role of diversity diversity in the process of organisational development. Given that none of us can be entirely free of presupposition, the task of cultivating a bias-free organisation may seem like an impossible one....
Linking organisational development and diversity may seem incongruous, sort of linking goat’s milk and lettuce. However, it’s a highly salient relationship. Organisational development aims to enable organisations to navigate the changes necessary for survival and...