As part of my work for central government, over the past few weeks I've been immersing myself in the work of Tim O'Reilly and the concepts of Government as a Platform. The concept at its heart is a metaphor. In fact a metaphor of a metaphor which is always a slightly risky approach prone to … Continue reading Platform thinking
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Diary planning is currently underway for the next steps in the co-coaching experiment. A quick recap: find two organisations that are significantly different but have an areas where they are essentially facing the same challenges. Bring the two organisations together. Help them find ways to work together to address their common challenges. I've been putting … Continue reading Co-coaching: the next stages
Another week, another experiment... On Thursday I have a session with a potential client looking at the concept of building an employer brand. The question that we will be looking at is whether a programme of helping their staff to become better networkers could achieve their aim to attract and retain good technical talent. The … Continue reading Building an employer brand
That was the question that David Terrar posed yesterday morning when tweeting a link to an HBR article that stated what many of us know to be the bleedin’ obvious: you can teach people to be more “creative”. You Can Teach Someone to Be More Creative https://t.co/CzQLt8XTbz - so why are thinking skills so rarely … Continue reading So why are thinking skills so rarely taught?
I had an exciting conversation yesterday with Claire Burge, someone with whom hopefully I might get the opportunity to work in the near future. At the core of her business thinking is the concept of No Email. It's a wonderfully simple encapsulation of a whole stack of thoughts that she has (many of which I share) … Continue reading A bunch of cargo cults
Yesterday I had something of a minor argument with a colleague. It went a little like this: Them: "Google Slides isn't as good at Powerpoint." Me: "Yes it is." Them: "Well, I suppose it's OK if you're using it to do presentations." At which point I bit my lip. It was a fair, if infuriating, … Continue reading On screen
It appears that many membership organisations are facing an existential crisis. In the past two decades the means by which we can establish and sustain networks has changed dramatically, first through tool like email and latterly through the emergence of social networks. In an era when the cost to communicate with a group of people … Continue reading Membership
On Friday morning the little experiment in co-coaching (for want of a better term) took place at a venue in London. The Chief Executive of a professional institution, the Technology Director of a major sporting association and I met up for a couple of hours of conversation and ideas. I'm going to split my reflections … Continue reading Co-coaching – first reflections
This week Microsoft released another one of its periodic glimpses of an imagined future in video format. I actually struggle to see much difference between this year's one and the last biggie, which is now six years old, which in itself is an interesting reflection on how we seemed to have entered a world of … Continue reading Envisioning the future
Tomorrow marks a minor experiment. There are two organisations with whom I've had conversations in the past few months. Both are membership organisations - one a professional association, the other a sporting body. Both operate at an international level. Both have a number of challenges facing them, both strategically and operationally. Both, it appears on … Continue reading Co-coaching
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