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THE CENTRAL LINE — I read an article this morning that I have been mulling over all day. There are probably many reasons not to write about it… not least because I am not a woman… but I can’t think of any reason that is really good enough. It has to do with the different way in [...] HOME — I had a good chat with a nice guy named Paul this week. He asked ‘how we worked’, and again I recognised that buying consultancy can be a daunting experience for people. And I hate to think that. I can’t say that every experience will be the same, but here are a few of [...] TCR — One of the staples of our business in the past has been managing large scale change management programmes. In particular the ‘change & engagement’ workstreams. Generally speaking change programmes fail because they are not properly communicated through the organisation. People are not involved in making them work, and so the new practices or structures simply [...] AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE — Where’s all the new regulation that we were promised? Where is the whole system turned on its head? Rather boringly we have moved back into silly stories and away from people being galvanised for change. I know we can’t all be on our toes all the time, but do we have [...] LUFTHANSA – I see in the papers this morning that research by Comedy Central says that we are laughing 50% less in the office than we used to. Why is it always 50%, I wonder? But the issue is still a good one and clear enough: We have lost the ability to make life easier on this ridiculous [...] DRIVING KIDS TO SCHOOL — I am like everyone else. I don’t want to claim that good things are happening ahead of smarter people than me. I don’t want to condemn a 10-week positive run of the stock market by saying anything so foolish as: “Hey, did you see that the global stock markets are way, [...] LONDON — What I like most about this blog on the Harvard Business website, is that it could have been written by me! Not that I am vain or anything…! But I think these ‘employee relations’, or internal communications, or (my preference) organisational communications issues are ones that will return to haunt us. They are also issues [...] LONDON — This may be the month of some riotous annual meetings. These regular, champagne fuelled events in which the Board deigns to talk down to the blue-haired shareholders, and a few ‘institutional investors’ drop by to show how important they are. They are not going as smoothly so far in 2009 as some people [...] ORIANA — Did you know that an estimated 670,000 Chinese businesses failed last year? Bankrupt. I didn’t even know that could happen. The Sunday Times last weekend ran a survey that compared views and trends between 1989 and 2009. Did you know that on average we are twice as cynical as we were then? Our trust in [...]
“Look, man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?” OFF JERSEY — The Buddhist in me (he’s very small) says that if you think something hard [...] |
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