By Juliet Hammond, Research and Data Analytics Lead This month, the Enterprisers Project, a community of technology leaders, suggests re-evaluating our view of remote working and see the opportunities to build authentic relationships and real collaboration without working face-to-face. McKinsey research supports this and proposes new leadership practices that will...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW If it’s true that ‘no organisation outperforms its top team’ we are probably in trouble! 75% of cross-functional teams are dysfunctional and the team at the top is no exception. Executive teams often focus on work being done by the individuals...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW An experiment by Max Ringelmann, a French engineer, in the 1880s showed that as you add people to a rope in a tug-of-war simulation, individual effort drops by 25%. Later called ‘social loafing’, it’s the risk that working in...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW Following the killing of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, monuments across the US, UK and elsewhere, commemorating people with backgrounds linked to slavery and racism, are being toppled by angry demonstrators. Simukai Chigudu, an Associate Professor of African Politics...
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant All the talk among researchers is, of course, about the virus – its impact on our work lives and the opportunities for a post-pandemic world that might be a little better than the old one. McKinsey invites us to...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW Every morning for the last two weeks, I have descended to my ‘garage-gym’ and pushed my body to meet the challenge before me. It’s been a valuable physical and psychological journey. The Push Up Challenge raises awareness of the 3,046 suicides...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW Matthew Syed’s brilliantly named article ‘We can go on meeting like this’ is a refreshing endorsement of the power of virtual meetings. It must be said, it starts with an indictment on meetings in general, calling them ‘forums in...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW In these times of huge events, I have found solace in reading about the tiniest animals on earth – microbes – in Ed Yong’s excellent ‘I Contain Multitudes’. A Dutchman named Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, born in 1632, used ingenious microscopes...
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant Lockdown brings a whole new perspective – most of the research this month is either about remote working or about how we want to change the world post-pandemic. Maybe there is a better world out there for us to...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW In a week when a toilet roll cost more than a barrel of oil, it’s probably best not to take things too seriously. Some excellent Lockdown Lingo is emerging which should help. ‘The elephant in the Zoom’ is the glaring...