What Happens "now now"
When confronted with the pandemic of 2020 there were myriads of responses from various people and I thought I would classify them into the words of my upbringing and my adopted country.
Right Place - Right Time
And so being in the right place at the right time is now in whatever business you're in. It is about looking at that business in a lot of detail, without getting caught in the detail.
Soaking up the rain
And so just like the plants in the garden that are soaking up the physical rain, I am soaking up the metaphysical rain
What is a Mentor - Do you need one (many) ?
The idea of a long term mentor is one who provides a framework for the mentee to be able to grow.
Profiling tools : Divine or Devil ?
What are profiling and assessment tools, and what is their role in your organization ?
How flexible is your organization ?
This article considers the need for the cultures of the future to be fundamentally focused on creating flexible working environments. This is not around the bean bags in the meeting rooms or the table tennis tables and most certainly not about hot desking and open plan offices.
Employee experience or employee engagement – the future ?
Employee engagement extends to understanding the role of the employer in the life of the employee, hence the future of the employee experience.
Just because you can
Today we use the term – paying it forward.How much do you do for others just because you can ?
Does culture have a $ value ?
Can we place a value on that culture or is culture a soft “thing” that cant be measured ?
What is a Mentor ? Do you need one ?
I have always been fiercely independent. I have never been able to follow a particular mentor to the exclusion of all others. However, over many years in business I have had countless influencers and mentors.
Crowd-sourcing self esteem
Is a Tie a useful piece of clothing?
For many years I have advocated the removal of the tie as a piece of clothing.
What is the truth?
How do these to ideas come together in 2019 and beyond. We live in an era of fake news and post-truth. And so what then constitutes perfect information ? How does the truth then relate to this ?
A tale of two cultures
Interviewing a manger of an engineering and construction business who had recently changed employer, I was fascinated by the completely different cultures of the two organizations.
CHEIN revisited
Think of a word to describe a person that is brimming with unbridled, exceptionally focused energy.
Fail fast and learn fast !
how many of our organizations are built to fail fast and learn fast ?
Feeding 1.5m children daily
work with 24 000 farmers, have created jobs for more than 300 people and significantly raised food production standards in the region.
What character are you ?
What personas do we use at work and what persona actually reflects our natural style.
Are we having fun yet ?
What is FUN and how do we embrace that as part of the core value and core culture. ?
Is “WORK HARD - PLAY HARD “ a Culture of Excellence ?
But the one consistent trend I've found through every one is that culture of work hard, play hard.”