by Kate Mercer | Sep 17, 2024 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
What exactly is this employee ownership thing, then? Simply speaking, EO is a form of exit strategy for a founder who wants to extract value from their business before finally leaving to retire or to do other projects. The usual way to achieve this is a commercial...
by Kate Mercer | Jun 18, 2024 | Leadership, Team Development
Are you plagued by complaints from your team members about others? Do you find they expect you to do something about ‘personality clashes’? Like these..? He’s making my life a misery, looking over my shoulder and meddling in my work She can’t be trusted to do her job...
by Kate Mercer | Sep 21, 2023 | Organisation Culture
When did you last see your job description? Well..? Thought so… Here’s something for you to try. Forget your ‘to-do’ list just for the moment, and don’t look at your job description, even if you’ve found it by now. Now, write down the things that it is your job to...
by Kate Mercer | Jul 4, 2023 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
Did you work it out? Because that’s exactly the sort of puzzle that distinguishes a human from AI. In the Turing Test, an AI computer and a human are asked questions to determine which is human. If the computer is indistinguishable from the human, it passes the Turing...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 5, 2023 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Many of us discovered during the Covid lockdown something we probably knew all along anyway – face-to-face communication is in many ways ‘better’ than remote communication. While remote communication offers convenience and cost-effectiveness, it cannot match the...
