“It’s not what you do, it’s how you think”. The 4 cognitive skills that are the future of human work.
On the 1st February this year my eldest child started school. One day, during the orientation week, I visited a classroom for year 5 and was struck by what was pinned on the wall. Lots of [...]
5 E’s make better meetings
It’s likely that you spend between 10-50% of your working life in meetings. That’s up to 1,000 hours a year. And yet, it’s just as likely that you’d say the meetings you have aren’t as effective [...]
Productivity: The Office of the Future
Imagine an office where mornings are quiet, productive times where everyone can focus on doing great work, unphased by the ping of their phones, the interruptions of their colleagues and an [...]
Unlocking Ernie – How to collaborate
There’s one management challenge I keep seeing crop up across multiple clients. It’s that, these days, management isn’t just about having direct reports; it’s about rapidly forming collaborations [...]
24 proven ways to manage change
24 proven ways to manage change Managing change used to be an occasional need, focused on a particular strategy or project. But these days, we know change is the only constant. That means that [...]
The Secret Life of Us – The Surprising Psychology of Collaboration (pt 1)
In part 1 of a 2 part blog, X or Y founder Rob Pyne looks at the problems and myths of collaboration. This blog is the companion to a talk delivered to the Mumbrella360 marketing and advertising [...]
The Secret Life of Us – The Surprising Psychology of Collaboration (pt 2)
In part 2 of a 2 part blog, X or Y founder Rob Pyne looks at the problems and myths of collaboration. This blog is the companion to a talk delivered to the Mumbrella360 marketing and advertising [...]
Bowing to peer pressure
We are all social animals. So it comes as no surprise that we often succumb to social pressure when making decisions. My favourite psychology experiment about this showed how people will say [...]
Are you Dundler Mifflin in disguise?
Have you ever felt like you worked at Dunder Mifflin*? Ever shook your head at something the management team did at your work?