Knowing how to manage your time seems like a skill that only junior managers would need to learn how to master. And yet, again and again I work with senior clients who are spending too much time on activities that are not creating long term value. Important but not Urgent Covey’s work back in the […]
Entries Tagged as 'Organizational Culture'
Getting to the Important Stuff
July 27th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
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More Serious People
June 2nd, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Personal Development
The recent TV series Succession has provided some valuable observations about life in organisations. Series director Mark Mylod always interpreted the story of the Roy family as a Greek Tragedy, where the tragic destiny of the main characters was already set from the very beginning of the series, due to their personal flaws. And so, […]
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It’s not personal, it’s systemic
May 16th, 2023 · No Comments · Culture, Leadership, Organizational Culture
Workers think that senior managers are heartless, arrogant and distant. Senior managers think that workers are childlike, blaming everybody and not understanding the need to get on board with the latest initiative. Middle managers are just too run off their feet to think anything at all and clients simply feel ignored and undervalued. If this […]
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Changing Cultures Through Conversations
April 26th, 2023 · No Comments · Organizational Culture
My clients often ask me; how do we change our culture? The main reason for this is that with a new strategy coming in, some things become less important while others actually get in the way of the strategy being implemented. One of the difficulties of adapting an organisational culture is that most people aren’t […]
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Changing the culture through conversations
August 29th, 2019 · No Comments · Liderazgo, Organizational Culture
My clients often ask me; how do we change our culture? The main reason for this is that with a new strategy coming in, some things become less important while others actually get in the way of the strategy being implemented. One of the difficulties of adapting an organisational culture is that most people aren’t […]
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Diversity and Goodwill
July 27th, 2019 · No Comments · Leadership, Organizational Culture
About a week ago American social psychologist and Professor of ethical Leadership at New York University, Jonathan Haidt held two public lectures in Sydney and Melbourne. In Haidt’s most recent book ,The Coddling of the American Mind,published in 2018, he expresses great concerns over the lack of trust between groups with different opinions or world […]
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What do you want?
July 12th, 2019 · No Comments · Liderazgo, Organizational Culture
One of the hardest things in coaching, or indeed in consultancy, is getting people to the stuff that can really make a difference. So often a coachee, or even a senior management team, will beat around the bush with stories about their problems, about other people or about their competition. As a coach you can […]
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Opening up to different views
February 21st, 2018 · No Comments · Organizational Culture
I must admit to being disillusioned with the press today. The difficulty to be financially viable has made the newspapers abandon the rigor they once honoured. So often, what you read is not based on fact, nor reflects a writer who values truth. It seems that few journalists invest the time to check the veracity […]
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