Seth Godin recently wrote about “ghost cities” – systems that still stand, still run, still look like infrastructure, but no longer hold real life. In workplace learning, the ghost city isn’t the LMS or the framework itself.It’s the assumptions they were built on: Those assumptions haven’t been true for years and this is why clarity… Read More Ghost infrastructure
A study of 64 senior women leaders found something worth paying attention to – 87% said menopause didn’t disrupt their work. However, the difference wasn’t fewer symptoms, but the environment around them. They had: For all the men who are senior leaders out there, these aren’t “women’s issues”, they’re leadership conditions. If you’re a man… Read More Men & the menopause
I’ve been speaking with a lot of people recently across HR, OD, L&D and consultancy. Senior and experienced people who have led real change and real work. The same patterns keep coming up: This isn’t about capability and it isn’t that the work has disappeared but the context has changed. I’ve said this before but… Read More Strategic Ambiguity
There are two kinds of webinars you end up attending. The first is a broadcast.Someone talks. You listen. The chat might get read, or it might not. The second is a participatory session.The chat is active and the learning comes from the discussion, not just the slides. Most people show up the same way to… Read More Two Very Different Webinars
We talk a lot about trust, empathy and psychological safety in leadership.All useful. They make it easier to have honest conversations. But performance shifts when managers know how to work out what’s actually getting in the way of the work. Start with clarity.Does everyone know what ‘good’ looks like?Not a value. Not a slogan. The… Read More See clearly
Lost and Desperate 