By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW Much of our work with teams has, according to our CEO Pia ‘turned into group therapy sessions’. There is – finally – more openness about mental health in workplaces. As INSEAD’s Professor Gianpiero Petriglieri observed: “even your average jerk colleague...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW A friend of mine has to go to the office for some meetings next week. His office is over 300km away. There’s a real danger that organisations will try to return to ‘normal’ and miss the opportunity to do things...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW It’s one thing to set goals, but it’s how much you’re prepared to invest that often proves the clincher. Take Melanie Perkins, CEO of Canva, now worth USD$3 billion. Her goal was to find funding but she realised that the deals were...
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...