Archive for the ‘Healthy, High-Performance Organizations’ Category
The Challenge of Being Global and Dynamic in the 21st Century
April 4th, 2014 by Colin Pidd
“Boats aren’t designed to live in a harbour.”
This quotation, often used by my brilliant colleague Jim Motroni, is intriguing… it makes the obvious point boats are designed and are at their graceful best under full sail on wide oceans working with tides, wind and waves.
Treat your Work as Play – and Never Work a Day?
December 5th, 2013 by Xisca Mairata
If play and work are on opposite sides of the spectrum, how can we collapse the gap between them?
From Working “9 to 5” to Working “Flexibly”
June 26th, 2013 by Colin Pidd
G’day, it is small touches that change our world… this below will never make a desk calendar or a thesis… It is simply what a few folk I’ve being working with in Telstra have chosen to add at the end of their emails… particularly when sent late or across time zones. I think is an…
Stretching…
January 26th, 2013 by Mickey Connolly
I like quotations, and I have a quotation site I especially like full of nuggets I often find timely and relevant. Earlier this week, one showed up right at the end of a two-day strategy meeting: “Set a goal SO BIG that you can’t achieve it until you grow into the person who can.” As…
Hard-wired for Collaboration
June 15th, 2012 by Anne Murray Allen
How do we build organizations that support collaboration? It begins with a network. Although people often talk about the ‘networked’ organization as the next great choice in organization design, it is a bit misleading. In fact, all organizations, all human systems, have existed as networks. This may be invisible to some people, but humans are…