Building a High-Performance Culture (Part 1)
Fixing the foundations: the 3 shifts in thinking that organisations must master In one form or another, most organisations today place a greater emphasis on performance and high performance culture. “Change being the only constant” is a tired trope. However, global trends continue to reshape the world economy towards greater competition. At the same time, […]
Is it time to move beyond engagement?
I am not a number In recent years an increased focus on employee engagement, along with the accompanying surveys, has corresponded with increased recognition of the importance of the human side of organisations. That the form of workplace that treated people as numbers and saw making profits as its sole objective has been broadly rejected […]
Don’t Trust December
December is a dangerous cocktail. Without much attention being paid to it, most companies combine end-of-year performance evaluations with planning for the following year. Major projects also consistently have deadlines and delivery dates in December, resulting in difficult decisions on resource prioritisation and trade-offs. When this is overlaid with the pressure (and expectation) of preparing […]
Up, Forward and Out
Look up Stephen Hawking, the pre-eminent physicist and cosmologist of his generation, encouraged us to “remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet” and running through Richmond Park this morning, it was easy to see the wisdom in his advice. With mist thick on the ground and the pre-dawn light […]