… in work hours Make yourself some tea, put it in a sippy cup and then strap yourself in for a rollercoaster ride of an article. How to Become a Centaur includes a dash of history a handful of science and a large dose of humour to produce a great primer
Strategic and organisational planning is a time-consuming process. For larger organisations, there may be a team that undertakes strategic planning on a near-continuous basis. But even smaller clients may spend more than a year developing a four-year strategic plan. In fact, I recently participated in the development of a 20-year
Things I’ve been reading during work hours I found this research by the American Not For Profit, ‘Beyond Conflict‘, to be in equal parts illuminating and reassuring. Published in 2020, the research looks into political polarisation and how members of political parties see themselves, as well as how they see others.
Who’s in charge of strategy at your organisation? And who get’s invited to participate? For most organisations the list of people who get invited to strategic conversations is a fairly short one. I’m not entirely sure why this is but I’m guessing it’s some combination of the following: I’m not
I have never really been a gambler. I don’t sink money into slot machines, I get fleeced on poker nights, and my failure to ‘get’ the Melbourne Cup is a constant reminder to people that I’m not a native Victorian. But as what others might call a ‘content creator’ (which
At various times we’ve all wanted other people’s buy-in. We want to get stakeholders to buy into our agenda, staff to buy into our strategy, and our boss to buy into our ideas (at least according to Harvard Business Review). The need to get buy-in is a widely accepted truth
Last week I posted on LinkedIn asking whether local councillors should be replaced with a board of directors. Just to be clear, this isn’t my idea, but it’s something I often hear when running workshops within local government. The post made quite an impact and led to some in-depth discussions
A lot of clients, especially in local government, are dealing with significant financial constraints right now. On top of the rate cap, which has been in place for a number of years, recent inflationary pressure plus changes to Workcover and the Waste Levy have put some organisations in a precarious
It’s time for you to either get on the bus or get off. Are you going out or staying home? Is reading this a good use or bad use of your time? Maybe it’s too early to make that call…or maybe it isn’t. How often do you find yourself being
When you look around your workplace how often do important decisions get put on ‘the back-burner’? Sometimes the back-burner is a place to put decisions that have been de-prioritised, but more often it’s a place to put decisions no one wants to make. Decision avoidance is a form of psychological inertia that
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