We all like a bit of freedom—the chance to act on our own initiative. Much of the time that’s a good thing. Recently, however, I’ve been noticing just how much energy can be wasted if everyone is …
Discerning patterns, seeing what’s going on
Have you ever noticed...? If you can just faintly hear some music being played in a noisy place... If you know the piece of music, you can make it out, whereas if you don’t, you can’t. It’s just part …
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Is individual learning enough to deliver organizational learning?
You’ve heard it before. You might even have said it yourself... “Training doesn’t work.” or “When I get back to the workplace, I find it very hard to apply what I’ve learned.” These can be …
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Organizational performance – it’s all down to “the human condition” in the end, isn’t it?
“Isn’t it just the human condition?” my friend remarked. We were discussing the difficulty of getting organizations to understand the problems they face and our reluctance as leaders to accept that we …
Where should our cash go – retaining people or training people?
How is it that organisations are content to go on spending £100ks or $100ks or more per month on salaries of people doing their jobs badly, but not a few £k or $k teaching them how to do their jobs …
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There ain’t no magic bullets
Great discussion with the team from Unipart led by John Neill, Group Chief Executive of the Unipart Group of Companies at the Business in the Parliament conference in Edinburgh (12 November 2010). …