In this blog, we continue our February discourse on individuality and how it makes you an effective: employee, family member, social acquaintance, and citizen. In our first two blogs – February 2019 – we explained why it’s essential for you… Read More ›
Let’s start off this week’s blog, the second in the series ‘You are more effective when you choose to be you,’ by making it very clear that we aren’t calling for rebellion or dissent in companies, families and other social… Read More ›
There is this fascinating book – The end of average by Todd Ross that resonates with our tendency to question why what is right or best is usually associated with a specific pre-agreed standard/norm. The book encourages you to look… Read More ›
If you are a CEO or those of you that have good visibility of your CEOs work, do you pay attention to the types of decision you make/your honcho makes? The kind of decision the CEO makes is indicative of… Read More ›
In last week’s blog, we explored what you learned in 2018. We asked if you re-skilled/up-skilled or de-skilled and also delved into the expertise vs. skills dichotomy. We concluded that expertise only remains potent when you continue to re-skill/up-skill. To… Read More ›
After a short break, we are back to the blog grind in 2019. As ever, we promise to give it our best every Sunday And we start on the 2018 individual learnings. Time to take stock – what did you… Read More ›
As you get closer to year end – seven days to go now – you must be getting into the contemplative-mood moment. When you and those around ponder what has been and may yet be We argued in series one… Read More ›
We know it’s festive season and that appetite for long reads is thin. So we will keep this festive season series short. It’s about new-year goal setting confetti — something that we do every end of the year, directly or… Read More ›
At the Effectiveness lab, we are acutely aware that organizational architecture (read: structure) impacts the efficiency, effectiveness and ultimately, the overall efficacy of organizations that purport to be in the business of value-creation. Whether you are in business for money… Read More ›
We are primarily an OD. blog and apolitical in every sense of the word. However, on some occasions, we infer lessons from the political sphere, without necessarily becoming political ourselves. There are extremely good lessons for OD. practitioners like leaders… Read More ›
