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Scaling Excellence | Adaptive Systems for Knowledge Transfer

When most people think about scaling a business, they think about acquiring more of a certain tangible resource: talent, capital, partners or supply chain arrangements. While these can all form part of a successful growth operation, there is one crucial…

Nikki Brown & Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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,…

Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

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…

Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

Improv for Agile Mindsets

As leaders are increasingly required to facilitate more collaborative, agile workspaces, so too must our skill bases and the focus of our professional development shift. More and more we need to hone our ability to listen, communicate, and learn to…

Gretel Bakker & Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Teams

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…

Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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…

Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

What is Attunement?

Curiosity and empathy are familiar terms in personal and leadership development. It could be argued that, to a degree, curiosity facilitates the practice of empathy. By asking open and compassionate questions, we are also opening our minds and hearts to…

Nikki Brown & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Storytelling, Teams

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…

Gretel Bakker & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

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,…

Gretel Bakker & Dr. Marianne de Pierres
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

The Social Animal: Finding Fulfilment

Many years of sociological research have identified a number of primary social needs that drive human behaviour. During periods of change and disruption, we can experience a particular threat to these needs, which may translate into anxious, stressed, and even…

Marcus de Courtenay & Dr. Chris Rowell
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Regenerative Teams: Rhythm and Reach

Few interpersonal relationships are more important to organisations than the dynamics of teams. It’s uncontroversial then to say that getting them right should be a priority.   On the one hand, the look of teams has changed irreparably in recent…

Marcus de Courtenay & Nikki Brown
Culture, Innovation, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams

Amplifying Voices: Optimal Feedback Loops

A San Francisco-based executive consultant recounts a conversation he overheard about Steve Jobs’ feedback style while at Pixar. Jobs would point to a person in a meeting and ask, “Tell me what’s not working at Pixar.” He would continue to…

Marcus de Courtenay
Culture, Innovation, Insights, Leadership, Learning and Development, Strategy, Teams