by Jonathan Gifford | Dec 11, 2014 | Books
Taking the organization from the industrial era to the Age of Ideas
by Jonathan Gifford | Oct 18, 2014 | Business & Leadership
Are you ever stressed at work? That was a trick question. We are all stressed at work, in ways so fundamental that we do not even recognise them. Work is a deeply unnatural social environment. People are actually very good at coming together to help each other...
by Jonathan Gifford | Mar 20, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Teams become emotionally attached to major projects in which they have invested their creative energies. It is difficult for organisations to write off large investments in time and money. Leaders need to abandon failed projects, whatever their merits. IBM...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 22, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Leaders should be concerned with strategy, not operational execution. If the organisation is set up so that colleagues understand what they need to do, and are driven by their customers, colleagues can themselves agree how best to achieve that aim, profitably,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Feb 21, 2014 | Leadership Ideas
Infectious ideas – or ‘memes’—are powerful communication tools that pack a great deal of conceptual and emotional content into a simple phrase, sound or symbol. Leadership ideas that can be turned into memes spread successfully through the organisation,...