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Stimulated by Gian Segato ‘Why write’: I set out to write about what I want to learn today or what do I want to make sense of my feelings about the curent situation today? @francescagino There is no going back. Normal, from here on out, is the world we’ll make together. This virus can turn… Continue reading Surviving This Pandemic Isn’t Enough

We don’t want to over-egg this. Pundits who imagine everyone who is able will now want to work at home and to holiday locally have lost their marbles. Human beings are footloose and need each other’s physical company. FT Lex 01/05/2020 The current discussion on the ‘new normal’ has included the view that there will… Continue reading The new normal: Which jobs can be done remotely?

A common thought is that when we emerge from the current ‘lockdown’ situation, one of the elements of the ‘new normal’ will be a wider embracing of remote working. The upsides to this for the individual worker being for many a much reduced journey time to work (but that has an impact on decompressing/differentiating work… Continue reading The new normal part 2: remote working

Creating the new normal 2 concepts that I discovered today: 1: Francesca Gino @francescagino writes “Break-Transform-Create” 2: Barry O’ Reilly writes ” Stopping activities, saying no, and shutting down is NOT the way to succeed in an uncertain environment. It’s the way to struggle, stagnate, and fall even further behind the tide of change” thanks… Continue reading Creating the new normal: 1

Curious people tend to have better knowledge across subject areas than less curious people. Do curious people engage in just about the same things as less curious people but they pay better attention and thus, learn more? Sophie Von Stumm The Hungry Mind lab. Discipline, stemming from the latin word ‘discere’-to learn. Noticing or the… Continue reading A hungry mind fed by the discipline of noticing

Productivity and how to improve it has been very much in the news this week. A Financial Times lunch briefing ‘Below potential, but how far?’ contained the following wonderful sentence: “Productivity gains may rely on protecting or putting in place conditions where workers themselves can and want to figure out how to do things better.”… Continue reading Productivity: locate improvement with those closest to the process!

Peter Northhouse defines leadership as “a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal” Gary Yukl relaxes the assumption of a single leader: “the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to accomplish shared objectives.” Defining leadership as a process means that it is not a trait or character-… Continue reading Leadership is about relationships-with yourself and with others

“Personal and organisational excellence demands experimentation, reflection and evaluation, and these things in turn lead to learning and growth. Change precipitates growth; some part of the self or the organisational culture is abandoned, encouraging and allowing a new self or a new culture to emerge.” “Therefore leadership is associated with risk taking, learning and change.… Continue reading Leading with curiousity, by asking questions