Creative Leadership: Leading With and For Creativity
As technology continues its automation of programmatic work, the premium on creativity in the workplace only grows. Creativity allows us to imagine, play with, and build previously unknown futures. It is the fuel behind innovation, offering up the raw material...
Creative Courtyards | Making Space For Creativity
It’s been said that creative thought is at the core of human progress. In this context, it can be seen as the reason we enjoy our contemporary way of living and technological advancements. And yet creative thought is still regarded...
Digital Connections | Knowledge Transfer in Hybrid Environments
The Deloitte study Global Human Capital Trends found organisations believe “knowledge management” to be one of the top three issues influencing their success. And yet, despite how crucial it is for operational continuity and growth, large aspects of knowledge management...
Sharing Knowledge – The Power Of The Collective
“More than ever before, knowledge sharing is being led by people, culture and context.” Jody Turner, Future Trends. According to a study conducted of Fortune 500 companies in the early 2000s, the estimated annual cost of knowledge loss is around...
Bodies of Knowledge | What if your body has the answers you’ve been seeking?
By my actions teach my mind. ~ William Shakespeare Remember when you were a child, and the world was not something just for your mind to understand? It was a place for your hands to grasp, your nose to inhale,...
De-escalating with CALM
After years of doom scrolling our way through the day, we are in many ways tired. One part of this is just the loss of our normal quality and joy of life from the pandemic: we have been languishing. Another...
What is Strategy?
Mike Tyson once famously said: “everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” And it can certainly feel that way when we are ‘doing’ strategy. It’s messy, big and volatile. But regardless of these challenges, strategy has...
The Ties that Bind Us: External Social Capital and Innovation
Few partnerships could be considered more profitable than that of “Wintel”. Microsoft and Intel dominated the PC-era and led the market in a range of metrics, managing to achieve a continuing level of innovation which delivered better PC performance for...
Cultures of Recognition
“Social capital is fundamentally about how people interact with each other.” Dekker and Uslaner The Coronavirus pandemic has tested and stretched us; it’s also been the catalyst for many transformations in the work environment. Patterns and processes that we thought...
Growing Pains: What The Science Behind Hybrid Working Tells Us
Zoom fatigue, back-to-back meetings, and lack of commute time to decompress… Hybrid working has brought with it a whole new raft of considerations and challenges. And while we know instinctively and practically how much our patterns of communication have changed,...
