by Kate Mercer | Oct 2, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
A term invented in 1972, Groupthink is a mode of thinking we engage in when we’re deeply involved in a cohesive, task-centred group – or when our need for agreement supersedes our need for a decision based on rational information. Groupthink can lead to...
by Kate Mercer | Aug 19, 2015 | Organisation Culture
Today, an inspirational post on tolerance from one of our favourite bloggers, Neil Crofts: Over millions of years humans have evolved to have a finely tuned distrust of difference. In the stone age settlement, difference meant danger. Millions of years of our...
by Amanda Baines | May 22, 2015 | Leadership
One of the most common complaints we get in working with business leaders at any level in organisations is the old chestnut, “my boss doesn’t understand me”. Do these sound familiar in any way: ‘They’ are not telling me anything. He/she isn’t interested in me/my...
by Kate Mercer | Apr 26, 2015 | Organisation Culture
On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger blasted off. Seventy-three seconds later, millions of people watched as the rocket disintegrated in a fiery explosion, and the capsule plunged back to Earth. The death of all seven crew members, particularly teacher...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 1, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
How familiar are these situations? Your organisation adopts a new strategy. While paying lip-service to the change, key staff still resist the new direction, complaining and hoping that things will go back to the way they were. A team regards itself as a group of...
