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 a traditionally unchangeable education industry in the USA. Apparently – there is much that contemporary… Read More ›
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 ›
Even those people that believe are perfect, fail. We all do wrong – only that to some people, accepting wrongdoing is wrong in itself. Not accepting one’s wrongs equates to not learning from our actions. At the effectiveness lab, we… Read More ›
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 ›
Well, let us be blunt on this one. Don’t managers all over the world grapple with this dilemma – how to get maximum productivity from their employees. Managers, the good ones at that, will know that apart from the employees’… Read More ›
Do you dream of having an apolitical workplace? A workplace where everyone one is not interested or involved in political acrobatics? Is this wishful thinking, after all, workplaces are run and dominated by humans? Humans are by their nature political… Read More ›
In Series 1, we referred to his Holiness Pope Francis as not only the ‘CEO’ of the Catholic church but also the organisational-culture circuit breaker. What is a circuit breaker after all? A circuit breaker is an automatically operated electrical… Read More ›
The connection between organisational-culture and the circuit-breaker may come as a surprise to many of you. Why should we even think of ‘breaking’ as opposed to ‘taming’ culture? After all, when it comes to matters change, contemporary change management theory… Read More ›
This blog twins design and culture and discusses how one influences the other. It’s only fair that we remind everyone the definition of organizational culture. Organisational culture is a system of shared assumptions, values, and beliefs, which governs how people… Read More ›
