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Squaring a Circle
I run creativity sessions, helping people to use creative, off the wall ways to gain new insights or potential solutions to difficult problems. I will always see the big picture and I tend to treat the details as irrelevant.
Reading Seth Godin’s post on Why ask Why?, made me think of one we wrote some time ago on dealing with employees who ask questions.
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say”. This lovely quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson highlights a common trap that many managers step into.
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip – guest post from Paul Matthews.
Much of management involves managing processes, so when you map out and then improve those processes, your life will be much easier.
Before you actually start examining a process, you need to make sure that everyone understands whether you are mapping ‘as is’ or ’should be’.
In [...]
I love this thought. There’s a touch of cognitive dissonance in it. Why would you even think of success in terms of its reversibility?
Well, here’s why:
How many companies thought they were untouchable two years ago?
How many thought they had sales figures to beat all sales figures?
How many were convinced they were so successful that they [...]
Here’s a thought for a Friday morning:
“First, the only certainty is that there is no certainty. Second, every decision as a consequence is a matter of weighing probabilities. Third, despite uncertainty we must decide and we must act. And lastly we need to judge decisions not only on the results, but how those decisions were [...]
Alchemy for Managers Weekly Tip
To deliver change successfully or, more correctly, to enable change, you need to undertake activities that cover both leading and managing.
Leadership is the process of creating and sustaining purpose, direction and intent such that people become involved to support the purpose. Without leadership, any change is unlikely to get going, and [...]
Some people are naturally morning people, and others feel more energised at night. I’ve always believed we should follow the lead of our body’s natural rhythms. And I’ve always known that mine is a late cycle.
For many years I had the television on in the mornings – then I stopped switching it on because I [...]
Sound advice for those who seek to make a difference to their organisation:
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
– Abraham Lincoln
Only through action can things change.
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