What NFPs can learn from F1
I spent a weekend painting a room, which is a great excuse for a four hour podcast (on someone’s recommendation; whose?). Acquired’s Formula 1 episode is a wild ride.
You can’t process shame alone. Compete to be the biggest failure instead.
Last week I ran a session on failure at Leanne Hughes ‘s Con Con – a conference of 50 solo consultants and entrepreneurs.
Organisation stuck? Wiggle your elbow
Augusto Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and the NFP Stack
Reframe at every boundary
Data crosses boundaries easily. The story that makes it meaningful doesn’t.
When reality at the bottom looks like failure from the top
The new strategy was launched six months ago with a CEO roadshow and big A2 posters in the break room.
'What's the solution?' is the last question you should ask
Be alert for 'thought-terminating cliches', and facilitate like Henry Fonda
The only performance management system that I've seen to work
At the UK's Science Museum Group in 2010, I encountered the best annual performance setting/review system I've ever seen. They strip-mined Jack Welch's system for the useful bits.
Interim vs Consultant
Reflections on being six weeks into an interim CEO role. Crucial differences between consulting from the outside and leading from the inside
Leading from the middle - when Exec aren't driving
A great question emerged in conversation with two clients recently: “is our Executive the right place to focus for developing our capability?”
Want to be better at Strategy? Play games
We're pretty keen to look to sports for doing better strategy. But instead of listening to people who play sports, be someone who plays games.
Enabling collective intelligence with space - or a fat sharpie
Governance and strategy spring from collective intelligence. After running a Board workshop yesterday in a fabulous meeting room, today I am writing about using and occupying space to enhance collective intelligence.
Balance of safety and tension in strategy workshops
Coaching needs safety, but not too much. And it needs tension, but not too much. This last few weeks I have been consciously applying this in facilitating strategy conversation with three Boards.
Apply strategy with an Accountability Matrix
Not Keanu's matrix. Geologists refer to the material in which something beautiful, meaningful or desirable is embedded as the matrix.
Shift your organisation’s cadence
Your workplace has rhythms, whether you control them, are controlled by them, or just live alongside them.