by Kate Mercer | Jun 17, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
It’s easy to blame external circumstances when you get stopped – your manager, lack of time, a change in the market… But if anything really stops you short in life, it’s likely to be a self-limiting belief: a thought about yourself, reinforced by emotion....
by Kate Mercer | Jun 7, 2015 | Leadership, Organisation Culture
We came across this recent article by Jose-Pedro Martinez at Blue Steps on implementing successful change management through communication and which is worth posting: Have you ever been a part of a company’s failed attempt to boost quality, merge with another company,...
by Amanda Baines | Jun 1, 2015 | Organisation Culture, Team Development
Teamwork has become the default way of working in organisations. Many of us have a long-lasting romance with teams, yet we rarely stop and question the assumptions. Like breathing, we just do it. Is teamwork still a safe bet or is it ‘last century’? The benefits of...
by Kate Mercer | May 27, 2015 | Organisation Culture
On Monday we talked about the origins of the Balanced Scorecard approach, the strategy performance management tool first introduced by Kaplan and Norton in the mid-90s. In today’s post, we’re focusing on the perspectives and implementation of that approach. A Balanced...
by Kate Mercer | May 25, 2015 | Organisation Culture
Back in the not-so-distant past, the world of work seemed a simpler place. Businesses and their employees didn’t seem to worry about targets, annual assessments, metric-driven incentives etc. But then across the pond US organisations started to focus on the goals of...
