Calling Out the Gold in You

Are We Creating a Matrix Body Farm?

When organisations try to manage scarcity, they can micro-control through imposing performance targets. This approach can have some mission-critical results.

The Access Paradox

Open-plan offices seem to be very popular. Part of the rationale for open-plan offices is that they aid teamwork and communications. It’s surprising, then, how many people who work in them, dislike them. Recently I was reviewing the work of an audit into a department where all its members work in a single open-plan office. […]

Multiple Priorities? Really? – Updated

Photo by Evan Dennis on Unsplash This article is updated from the version published earlier in 2018. Very likely, the following scene will be familiar to you. I was invited to facilitate a strategic workshop. I was told fairly early on, “We have 32 strategic objectives we need to meet.” “OK,” I replied. […]

Stop Pushing Me!!

At times we all feel somewhat overwhelmed by all the jobs piling up, whether in our email inbox, or in our own to-do lists. Many are overwhelmed all the time. It’s as if our lives are being driven by that pesky list of demands. It feels like they are pushing us, each vying for first […]

One Simple Thing to Make You More Productive

This year’s first Leading Yourself online programme is going well, and we have just completed a module called, What’s in Your Foreground? It’s about the importance of priorities and their place in the skill of leading yourself, where you find them, and so on. In this short video I explain one powerful technique called the […]

Interruptions at Work

Three traffic lights icon (done in 3d, isolated) One of the most common complaints I hear from clients is about their office environments, about how noisy or distracting they are. Where they can, I’m finding many people excuse themselves from their office to get serious, thought-intensive work done. In fact, some even argue that the […]

Tools that evolve with your work

My son Robin is a remarkable Agile software developer. He runs a company called Degu. Currently, he is developing a pretty cool business model around his film workflow management software. He has invited me in to advise him on strategy. We need tools that can evolve with our work. Click to Tweet When the business […]

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PinkCast & the 2-minute Rule

I really appreciate Daniel Pink’s work, particularly Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, an awesome book. He delivers a periodic, high-energy, short video to his subscribers called Pinkcast. This week’s Pinkcast made me smile (as it usually does). It featured another notable author and speaker, David Allen, most well-known for his book […]

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