Firms often view doing good and making a profit as trade-offs – if you do well at one, its at the expense of the other. However, the story of the Herman Miller company is just one that shows that the two actually often go hand in hand.
Every day we make choices about how we invest our attention. What would happen if we did this more deliberately?
If we flatten out our hierarchies and manage more inclusively, our organisations are more successful. So why don’t we do this?
Wile E. Coyote is actually a pretty good model for innovators. Not because he’s a genius, but because he perseveres.
Zappos is undertaking a fascinating experiment in change management. It’s important to evaluate this separately from the experiment with the management structure Holacracy that they are trying at the same time.
The Trap of Authenticity Do organisations need to be authentic? It’s a question that came up as I was talking to a colleague recently. He runs a program for the London Stock Exchange designed to accelerate growth in mid-sized companies so that they will become big enough to list on the LSE faster. One of […]
