by Kate Mercer | Apr 9, 2016 | Organisation Culture
What’s your philosophy on running your car? Do you pride yourself on how smoothly it runs and the perfection of its paintwork and appearance, taking it to the garage at the first hint of a little bump, or a window switch not working properly? Or do you run it until...
by Amanda Baines | Mar 30, 2016 | Organisation Culture
In organisations where finger-pointing is rife, it is likely that there is a pervasive blame culture. This will inevitably have a damaging effect on the success of your business. We give you five ways of turning this around, with a set of effective groundrules to...
by Kate Mercer | Mar 22, 2016 | Organisation Culture
We spend a lot of time and words on this blog writing about how to give your organisation, and the people in it, space to grow and thrive without you and your hands-on input 24/7. Often this comes as a huge relief to business leaders: relinquish control of the details...
by Kate Mercer | Feb 29, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Somehow running a business, or a team within a business of more than about 30 people, can appear to be extremely complex. Of course, we have the option to make it complex, but the secret of success is to keep it simple. The totally transferrable secrets of success...
by Kate Mercer | Jan 22, 2016 | Organisation Culture
Let’s imagine you go to the doctor with a pain all across your lower back and down your left leg. When you go into the doctor, you sit down and say, ‘I know exactly what I need, Doc. I’ve got this pain; if you’ll just do me a prescription for these specific named...
