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Why Are Remote Workers Facing Burnout?
Employee fatigue and burnout was a wellbeing concern for many employers before the pandemic, but eight months in, the problem seems to have been exacerbated by granting people the very thing they coveted the most: unlimited flexibility. Are we experiencing… Continue reading
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The Problem With An Over-Reliance On Data
“Last Saturday evening fans of Little Mix who had tuned in to BBC1 to watch the latest episode of their talent show, The Search, were instead treated to a contender for the worlds shittest PowerPoint presentation.” The problem with data… Continue reading
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A Relentless Focus On Efficiency Can Kill Innovation
Why do organisations who say they are innovative fail to put their money where their mouth is and invest in innovation in the same way Amazon do? Continue reading
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How To Make Decisions In A World Of Uncertainty When Not Knowing Or Being Sure Of Anything Is The Only Answer We Have (TLDR: Get comfortable with failure..)
In a high stakes environment , where people will die whatever you do next, nobody wants to talk about failure. For companies large and small, to make progress in complex situations means re-evaluating our relationship with the F Word. Continue reading
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How To Lose Trust During Complex Times
Why are we losing trust in leaders during the pandemic? The story has become about the data and nothing else. Great stories help us to persuade people to take action. Stories about data persuade people to argue about the data. Continue reading
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Why Do So Many People Want Us Back In The Office?
After the sudden and miraculous shift to remote work – the office fightback has well and truly begun. Continue reading
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What Face Masks Teach Us About Behaviour Change
Ultimately the innovation and change process begins and ends with one basic premise – listen first Continue reading
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COVID Accelerates Everything: Including Change Fatigue
How can our organisations cope with a coming tsunami of burnt out workers? The signs are all there that the transition to hybrid/remote working is not as painless as the Zoom and Teams enthusiasts are making out. Continue reading
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How Can We Move Towards A Better Normal?
We are living through an era of intense turbulence and disillusionment. Even before COVID-19 we were faced with circumstances which the scholar and critic Ziauddin Sardar has described as uncertain, rapidly changing and chaotic. He describes this as a period… Continue reading
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Smaller, Flatter, Faster. Is The Two Pizza Team Finally Going Mainstream?
This weeks post looks at the two pizza team which was popularised by Jeff Bezos. In the early days of Amazon he instituted a rule that every internal team should be small enough that it could be fed with two… Continue reading
Paul Taylor 