This week we discuss organisation vs. individual culture dilemma. Should we work for organisations that share the same culture orientation as us? And, what is on offer for organisation culture? Mono or poly culture? Traditionally, culture at organisations tends to… Read More ›
Organisational Culture
Can CLASS be ascribed to organisations as it’s to humans? Series 2 of 2
At the end of series one, we promised to outline research and evidence regarding the manifestations of classic organisations. And other than pretend that we can teach organisation class, we opined that working backwards from manifestations of class at organisations,… Read More ›
Organisation-culture hygiene mischief – Series 2 of 2
It’s apparent from series 1 that organisational culture is a vital part of an organisation’s machinery and its optimal functionality. You can’t choose, if you are a smart leader or owner, not to pay attention to culture and its hygiene… Read More ›
Organisation-culture hygiene mischief – Series 1 of 2
We start with the definition of culture: …organisational culture is “the shared basic assumptions, values, and beliefs that characterise a setting and are taught to newcomers as the proper way to think and feel, communicated by the myths and stories… Read More ›
Innovation at companies: often touted but lacks the right toolbox – Series 1 of 2
We recently stumbled upon a McKinsey article on innovation, leadership and organization culture – and couldn’t help but reminisce about the many attempts at innovation by ourselves as individuals, but also, other people that we interact with professionally For starters, innovation has… Read More ›
You are simply a statistic at work – right?
While standing in the queue for my visa interview at the American Embassy in Nairobi, on a chilly July 1st morning, I read from the embassy public TV that the quintessential CEO of Safaricom Kenya, Bob Collymore, was dead. I… Read More ›
What CEOs can learn from film producers
We are currently reading an interesting book – Design thinking for school leaders by A.Gallagher and K.Thordarson. The book explores how sustainable change happens in traditionally unchangeable education industry in the USA. Apparently – there is much that contemporary change… Read More ›
Diversity not a mere tick-box exercise – corporate optics 1 of 2
There may be no other country on earth, where diversity and inclusion – at every level, but more so the corporate and political spheres where power and influence are vested in the hands of a privileged and powerful class, are… Read More ›
Effective managers are ever keen to ‘right’ a wrong
Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong. Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to not learning from our actions. At the effectiveness lab, we call such… Read More ›
Do you have the ‘GAFA’ factor at your workplace?
GAFA means Google – Apple – Facebook – & Amazon. It’s not an exaggeration to write that these four companies not only control the global economy but are, moreover under insignificant oversight by the governments that should control them, causing… Read More ›