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Around Dec 24th, your whole organisation turned the lights off and went to sleep. Then slowly across January, the lights started to switch back on. One-by-one, in random spots, people have [...]

Last week I gathered a group of 30 leaders to squeeze some learnings out of 2020. I want to share the 3 questions we discussed. You may find them useful in your world. First, I ran a quick poll, [...]

I had a dozen leaders in a workshop on unlocking team intelligence. I shared this rather unassuming chart and it was the moment that stopped the group in their tracks. Let me explain. Collective [...]

In an organisation, work gets done at 3 levels. The individual brings their skills and effort. The team co-ordinates localised activity and resources. The organisation creates an environment [...]

  In my work on team intelligence, we know that surprisingly few teams consistently show up with their “A” game. For example more than 50% of people on senior leadership teams [...]

Finding wisdom in negative space I come from an artistic family. My mother completed an Art degree aged 60. My late father was a prolific experimenter, trying everything from 3D Film making to [...]

What is the opposite of strategy? Last week I was working with a couple of Leadership Teams on their strategy, a question popped into my head… What is the opposite of strategy? I posted it on [...]

In 2010, 5 researchers set out to test the collective intelligence of teams. They subjected teams of 3 to 5 people to hours of tests – including brainstorming, making moral judgements, [...]

4 weeks ago I wrote a post about presenting called, “It’s not about the content” which got lots of positive reaction. The idea was that people write presentations that focus on the content, the [...]

Did you know that bee hives think?   A bee hive is a bit like a brain. It is a type of complex adaptive system. Which means a system which can react as a whole to its environment. And bee hives [...]