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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 [...]

When you go to a presentation, what are you expecting? Personally, I’m expecting the presenter to do two things. I’m expecting them to… a) tell me something I don’t know that’s b) useful to me. [...]

We’ve been tracking 4 organisations as they navigate working remotely, surveying their people every 2 weeks. Here’s an insight that might just inspire you to take action. Our tracking [...]

When I was a teenager, before I could drive, I had an argument with my Mum in the car. She was telling me how she could slow the speed of our (manual) car just by changing down through the gears. [...]

If you’re interested in improving your decision-making, here are our tips that we’ve seen be easiest to apply to real life tough decisions!

How we make decisions, and how we can improve Critical decisions A fire fighter has just arrived at the scene of a house fire. The blaze is coming out of the top floor windows. How does he decide [...]

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 [...]

Today, Phil is saving me from myself. Phil is my DIY guy. He comes round and fixes up the things that I’ve tried to do myself and f***ed up. I am not talented at DIY, so often a simple task [...]

Most of us are busy thinking about 2018; and so we’ve put together some links on talent and training trends we thought might be of interest.

4 years ago I launched a business to help people make better decisions. Last week we stopped to take stock. What have we done that’s worked? What really helps people make better decisions? [...]