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Building an effective team We spend a lot of time, effort and money on so-called “team-building” events and initiatives. But that term [team-building] usually relates to enhancing the morale and cohesion of existing teams. Picture credit: Tom Brogan We don’t, however, spend so much time thinking about real team-building – i.e. creating new teams, from scratch. Which is a pity. Of course such Continue reading article » Risk management: integrity of minor change Change is a risky business and even small changes can induce disproportionate risk, especially if you cannot reverse the change when a problem appears. Picture credit: Scott Ableman We may be reasonably good at managing big change and ensure that we have contingency plans to back-out any unsuccessful change, by restoring the status quo ante. But very often we Continue reading article » the big problem with organization charts Of course a major problem is that some still believe that their organization works entirely in accordance with the formal organization chart, respecting boundaries. Whereas the org chart is really only one of the essential layers in building up a multi-layer insight of how things actually work – and the other essential layers intersect, overlay and underlay the organization chart, Continue reading article » If prophets are despised in their own land, where does that leave Visionaries – are they trapped or liberated by their own insight? The V word has increasingly wide currency but is far more often misappropriated than warranted. So how do you recognise a true visionary among the pretenders? Picture credit: krish.tipirneni Well there is an obvious distinction between Continue reading article » The UK Chancellor is expected to massively scale back the world’s largest IT project, in a desperate effort to save money. picture credit: Mike Rawlins For the past five years, I have believed that the NPfIT has been the poster child for the Trillion Dollar Bonfire – as a poorly conceived, massively flawed and consequently expensive programme. Why do Continue reading article » |
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