A friend of mine, Mark, spends one week a year fishing in the mighty Zambezi river. You may have heard of the Victoria Falls on the Zambian and Zimbabwean border – that’s the Zambezi. It is a mighty river that’s home to one of most ferocious fish on this planet: the tigerfish. Like the piranha, …
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Every day Dale deals with a familiar pattern. He sits in meeting after meeting with colleagues who feel more like competitors. Every day he reads about the ‘future of work’ and how automation and technology are taking human beings out of the mix. In every meeting he feels the tension in the room as people …
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Doctors in hospitals have unceasing demands on their time. Anyone who has worked in a hospital, been a patient, or watched one of those endless TV dramas built around hospital life knows: doctors never have enough time and are constantly in demand. If you have been a patient in a hospital you know how important …
It’s not fair. Gender discrimination is hard-baked into everyone despite their protestations. Subtle gender bias occurs in every meeting, in every work-based interaction – filo pastry-like layers of discrimination that are so insidious you barely notice them creeping up on your psyche. But they’re there. For years we’ve been working with talented, accomplished corporate …
How Effective Leaders Self-Promote Without Sounding Smug Read More
Poor old PowerPoint. So often this unassuming piece of software is used for evil. Well, not exactly evil. That makes it sound too exciting. So often it’s used to stultify, numb and create grinding tedium in educational facilities and boardrooms around the world. It’s been so badly used, yet is so ubiquitous, that the US armed …
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