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I write about leadership, coaching, culture, change and sustainable high performance. The aim is to make sense of what’s happening in organisations in a way that’s practical and useful for senior leaders and HR/OD professionals.
If you’re new here, start with these four: Why your managers aren’t stepping up, Why your senior leadership team is struggling, Psychological safety isn’t about being nice, and Gestalt organisational development.
Running on reserves: where judgement comes from, and why we’ve stopped making it
Last time I argued that AI didn't get rid of the cost of knowledge work, it moved it. The saving you make on producing the work turns up again as the cost of checking it, and checking is now the thing everything else waits for. Which leaves a question I dodged: if...
Faster, but not better: what AI is really doing to management
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...
Psychological safety isn’t about being nice
Most HR directors I work with have, at some point, commissioned work on psychological safety. The survey gets run, the workshops happen, the team's scores improve. Six months later, the executive team is still avoiding the difficult conversation they need to have. Or,...
Leadership and trust-based outcome measures
Trust-based scientific studies and organisational outcome measures provide a compelling new way to monitor and improve your organisational health, but can we benefit before we’ve created a safe space for conversation?
What IS Organisational Culture?
What IS Organisational Culture? And Can You REALLY Change it? An organisation’s culture could be the key to unlocking stability and growth. Yet it’s a multi-layered topic. Here’s my take on what it is, and why it matters. Organisational culture can affect every aspect...
Gestalt Organisational Development
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...
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