Organizational Culture

Late last year I was talking to a friend who holds a global finance position in a major corporation about understanding the health of the culture of organisations and the benefits that such work can create. His response was “well yeah, but we’re going to want to know what the…

Hiring for culture fit has become popular recently as organizations realize the importance of creating a positive and cohesive work environment. …

There is one singular epiphany, in the high-impact leaders I spend my days with, that births the most spectacular businesses, innovations, impact and cultures. It is the awareness, that in ultimate reality, there are no such things as “problems”, only evolutionary invitations for us to enter the profound space where…

10 years ago work consisted of scribbling a bunch of math on the walls, running simulations and building UAVs in a lab. If you had told me that in the future I’d have a job involving none of that and that instead I would be a consultant encouraging execs to…

As Heraclitus famously said, “change is the only constant in life”, and yet we still act as if we can predict tomorrow. It’s time leaders and organizations embrace and predict unpredictably. — Things that have never happened before happen all the time. Everyone experiences surprises, in their personal as well as professional lives. We expect one thing and then another thing happens. In our companies we are constantly surprised by the sudden changes that happen in our environment, often leading to confusion, blame gaming and even more bureaucracy.

“No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible, intangible force which may be likened to a third mind.” — Napoleon Hill The Greek myths tell how Zeus asked Prometheus to fashion humans from Clay. …

Seven years ago, I read Steve Jobs’ biography by Walter Isaacson and was fascinated by the concept of A players. I saw how Apple succeeded because of their A Player strategy and how it set them apart from its competitors. But as much as the concept inspired me, I doubted…

Recently I read “Key Performance Indicators: Developing, Implementing, and Using Winning KPIs”, it’s a great book for those who want to learn more about the management side of a business. In his book, David explains how to develop, present, and maintain a KPI Program in an organization independently of its…