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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 …

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 …

Every organisation has a set of values, most even live by them, but how many have successfully embedded the right behaviours that reflect those values …

Last week I was running an open space to kick off a new community of practice for engineers. While I was wandering around the room …

There was a boy who was born without a right arm. On his ninth birthday he asked his parents if he could join a karate …

“Not that old chestnut” I hear you cry. We have written a whitepaper on this subject and blogged on it a few times. It keeps …

Last week Melbourne was witness to our taxi drivers protesting in the city streets against their poor working conditions. The protest was sparked by the …

Every month, the Australian Institute of Management publishes its magazine ‘Management Today‘. The back page (p56) of the May 2008 edition has some comments about …

The damaging windstorm in Melbourne two weeks ago gave me an interesting insight into how poorly prepared the leadership of our energy organisations were to …

Ford Harding has just posted two versions of the same anecdote. The first paints the consultant as the hero while the second focuses on the …