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Monthly Archives: September 2010
If you think like hammer, does everything start to look like a nail?
Tool bound thinking is the topic for a group discussion about internal communications that I’ve been part of over at the Commscrum blog. Continue reading
Commscrum is a group blog founded to bring interdisciplinary thinking to business communications. Founders Dan Gray, Kevin Keohane, Mike Klein and Lindsay Uittenbogaard kindly invited me to join the second wave of posters - so here is my first post in collaboration with ...MORE >
Managing the future workplace? Start here.
We distil the essence of Wall Street Journal online editor Alan Murray’s advice to managers… Continue reading
Stay flexible. (Essential for agility in the face of uncertainty.)
Devour data. (Not just bits and bytes - keep an "ear to the ground" and actually get out into the field and talk to the ordinary folk using your products.
Be (somewhat) humble. (Recognise ...MORE >
Employees first, customers second
“Upside down engagement – transparency or smoke and mirrors?” asks Cricket Development Director Louise Barfield… Continue reading
Louise was reflecting on the Wall Street Journal Europe review of Vineet Nayar's book. She asks: Is this the way forward? How do you see this working in practice in your sectors?
Indy's reply: I certainly believe something like this is the future of ...MORE >
A lesson from the boards
A hit comedy on London’s West End called La Bête, pitched as a contest between populist and elitist culture, is also about the problem of innovation within organisations. Continue reading
Set in 1650 in France, the plot concerns a street clown thrust upon the Court-appointed playwright by an autocratic princess. Her reason: the playwright’s troupe is growing stale. In the clown’s performances in the public square, and the non-sensical accounts he gives ...MORE >