When you feel included and engaged, do you do a better job? Do you think teams that in which people work well together produce much better results? Have you noticed the best ideas often come from unexpected sources? Do you want to work at the top of your intelligence and give the same opportunity to others?
These good questions set the stage for the popular book 'The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures: Simple Rules to Unleash A Culture of Innovation' which came out in 2014 and has since changed how we collaborate and innovate.
Carsten G. Lützen works as a playful agile coach at the LEGO Group and has been working on liberating structures for the last few years and also recently created a collection of liberating structures agenda items which you can pick and choose from
Read moreLast week we held a breakfast briefing in London on the topic of Driving Digital Transformation with Legacy Technical Debt and culture change was mentioned several times as the biggest challenge, but can you fix culture?
Focusing on the business, creating trust in the teams via transparency and empowering teams to actively participate seemed to be the winning recipe in the two customer stories from Sovereign Housing and Vodafone. Co-founder of MMT Digital James Cannings highlighted the changes required and recommended building out your agile processes from the bottom up, but with support from the top.
Read moreHow do we to turn New Year’s resolutions into sustainable habits?
BJ Fogg is the world’s leading expert on habit formation and he was our guest star for the 1st member conference call of 2020. According to BJ, we are doing resolutions the wrong way and we need to take a new approach to changing habits.
Read moreIf you leave the corporate headquarter in any large, complex and global organisation, it’s not unusual to hear headquarters described using terms familiar from any love-hate relationship. Being at the receiving end of directives from HQ, while working hard to make sales goals in local markets can easily lead to despair and frustration.
As a part of the onboarding process at VELUX Group, Andreas Klinke Johannsen requires new team members to work locally as an embedded part of a local team. Might this be the key ingredient that can unlock better collaboration and higher performance?
Read moreOrganizational change is on the tip of many tongues these days, and CEO’s are investing more in culture change programs. Still, many feel overwhelmed by the possibilities, and don’t know how or where to start.
Read moreGallup found 90% of people in Western Europe are not engaged at work. If their study was conducted in the early 1800’s, during the first wave of industrialization which pushed millions of people into unrelenting factory jobs, you might expect it. It was carried out in 2017, which makes it almost unfathomable given the billions spent on culture, leadership and engagement annually.
Read moreMy approach is based around creating disturbance in order to destabilize habits and comfort zones: the enemies of change (as I see it). Outside of habits and comfort zones is fertile ground, but there may also be fear and suffering. There can be no guarantees that stepping into fertile ground will yield resilience, but it’s more likely to get results than doing nothing. The trick is to stretch the comfort zone, by inviting reflection and growth, in small steps.
Read moreAvoiding bad hires 100 percent of the time would probably be a dream come true in HR. Not to mention the teams that have to live with that person just not working out. Decades of optimizing recruitment processes have certainly gone a long way, but is it actually possible never again to hire the wrong person?
Read moreEveryone is talking innovation, collaboration, intra/entrepreneurialism, agility, decentralisation of power, digitalisation, the VUCA world, but all to few realize the sort of changes we will have to make to achieve it.
Read moreThe promise of combining new ways of collaboration with design thinking to come up with important innovation sounds almost too good to be true.
This was at the heart of a popular session at the Boye Aarhus 17 conference where Maren Christin Huebl from German software giant SAP gave a talk on fostering a culture of innovation with design thinking.
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