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Individual intelligence can lead to collective stupidity
I am reviewing Fred Kofman’s book ‘Conscious Business’ subtitled ‘How to build value through values. He uses a soccer game to illustrate ‘a puzzling paradox’ …
Read MoreCollaboration by design
Lend Lease has pretty good lineage when it comes to innovative practices on the KM front. Their iKonnect program started in 2000 and is a …
Read MoreThe pond metaphor
Here is something I have meant to post about for a while. It is a metaphor in the book ‘Dangerous Undertaking‘ by James Harlow Brown. …
Read MoreAnother little thing….
One of the things we talk about a lot is the power of ‘little things’ to make a difference in a complex environment. I saw …
Read MoreEmployee engagement interest in storytelling
A few weeks back, Alex Manchester from Melcrum interviewed me on various issues around storytelling. He approached me following the large amount of interest in …
Read MoreLeaders need to listen
Deborah May provided the following account in her recent newsletter. Most leaders want to engage their team in planning processes but don’t always do so …
Read MoreInternal blogging builds trust in leadership
In a blog post of 9 June over on The Melcrum Blog, Abi Signorelli describes how leaders in her organisation were blogging internally and how …
Read MoreCollaboration paper generating interest
Our recent whitepaper ‘ Building a Collaborative Workplace‘ is generating some interest. An edited version was published in BRW last week and last night I …
Read MoreThe head office pattern
Smart people hate being told what to do. In many of our projects we see the ‘head office pattern’ where HO is seen as a …
Read MoreLost knowledge?
The building in the left foreground of the image is the historic Hyde Park Barracks Museum in Sydney. The building at the back behind the …
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