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Four steps to changing the world

Culture, Leadership, Personal Development, Productivity4 August 2023208Views 0Likes 0Comments

How to change the world: Step One. 1. Be Frustrated. 😡 Nothing sparks action like negative emotion, so take a look at the world. What frustrates you? What do you see and think that should be like that? What problems make you angry? How to change the world: Step Two. 2. Be Unconventional. 🤔 …

We’ve past the economic singularity.

Culture3 June 2023279Views 0Likes 0Comments

I think we've passed an economic singularity and are now enslaved to a system no longer helpful or fit for purpose. In technology terms, the singularity is a point in the future where technological growth becomes increasingly fast and uncontrollable, resulting ultimately in a super-intelligent artificial life that begins to learn and design its…

March 2022 – Culture Drops

Culture17 April 2022178Views 0Likes 0Comments

A film without music is boring.

Culture, Leadership14 March 2022230Views 0Likes 0Comments

Films and film scores go hand in hand. Adding a score to a film elevates it. It intensifies the emotions and helps the storyteller to emotionally connect with the audience in a way that draws them into the narrative and captures their entire attention. When Steven Speilberg originally did his test screening of Jaws,…

The Modern Capitalism Equation

Culture, Leadership28 February 2022189Views 0Likes 0Comments

In modern capitalism, capital is more important than people. The balance sheet is more important than the health and quality of life of employees or communities.

Culture is the most influential part of any organisation.

Don’t hire the best.

Culture, Leadership, Productivity13 July 2021164Views 0Likes 0Comments

When Simon Sinek gives his students’ group work. He does a little experiment. Often when teachers organise groups, they put a selection of abilities in each group, to make the groups balanced and give each group similar chances of success and achievement. Sinek, does it differently….

Physical robots to emotional robots

Culture, Productivity13 June 2021138Views 0Likes 0Comments

10,000 years ago, humans made a transition from searching to cultivating. The first agricultural revolution saw nomadic tribes move from going out and finding whatever was available and following the food source, to settling in communities and cultivating the land to grow their own needs and care for their livestock. We stopped…

Clarify Expectations.

Communication, Culture, Leadership15 March 2021154Views 0Likes 0Comments

This is Part 3 - Read Part 1 & Part 2 of our five part series Once you introduce this new level of self-motivation and self organisation for people, they will have a lot of space and a lot of decisions to make themselves about how, when, and what work they do and when they…

Choose a different metric.

Culture, Leadership, Personal Development, Productivity8 March 2021145Views 0Likes 0Comments

This is Part 2 – Read Part 1 of our five part series The great thing about moving to a more fluid rather than a balanced operating model (see last week's post) is that it frees up a company from having to do the management heavy task of accounting for and controlling people's time (the hours they…

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Four steps to changing the world

We’ve past the economic singularity.

March 2022 – Culture Drops

A film without music is boring.

The Modern Capitalism Equation

February 2022 – Culture Drops

January 2022 – Culture Drops

Culture is the mindset of an organisation.

Physical robots to emotional robots

Clarify Expectations.

Choose a different metric.

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