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February 17, 2015

The Heart of Transformation

For anyone who has lived through, or led, large-scale change in today’s corporate environment, the notion that “people resist change” often stands as a taken-for-granted starting […]
November 10, 2014

Some Questions on Customer Centricity

Over the past few weeks, we have been bouncing around the concept of customer centricity. Sparked by two thoughts really. The first is that many of […]
April 4, 2014

The Challenge of Being Global and Dynamic in the 21st Century

"Boats aren't designed to live in a harbour."

This quotation, often used by my brilliant colleague Jim Motroni, is intriguing… it makes the obvious point boats are designed and are at their graceful best under full sail on wide oceans working with tides, wind and waves.

December 5, 2013

Treat your Work as Play – and Never Work a Day?

If play and work are on opposite sides of the spectrum, how can we collapse the gap between them?
June 26, 2013

From Working “9 to 5” to Working “Flexibly”

G’day, it is small touches that change our world… this below will never make a desk calendar or a thesis… It is simply what a few […]
January 26, 2013

Stretching…

I like quotations, and I have a quotation site I especially like full of nuggets I often find timely and relevant.  Earlier this week, one showed […]
October 19, 2012

Leading Healthy Organizations

Leaders create the conditions for positive organizational health, and are a product of them.  Yes, you heard me right.  Leaders make organizations healthy or not, and […]
June 15, 2012

Hard-wired for Collaboration

How do we build organizations that support collaboration? It begins with a network. Although people often talk about the ‘networked’ organization as the next great choice […]