By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW In the 1960’s the rallying cry ‘there’s no ‘i’ in team’ galvanised people to make the most of their collective talents. Fifty years on, the shine has definitely come off this powerful unit. Pace, remote working and ubiquitous technology have morphed the...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW It’s the ambition of many organisations to have ‘a customer-centric culture’. It’s a worthy goal but culture can be elusive. As Justice Potter Stewart said about pornography in the landmark 1964 Jacobellis vs Ohio case, ‘you know it when you...
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant HBR urges us to turn back the clock and find our ‘beginners mindset’ and Dan Rockwell says the best way to help people to be better is by helping them to develop a learning mindset. Life is not fair,...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW At a recent event I was facilitating something hit me hard. A number of groups in this healthcare company were looking at the experience of their patients in order to deeply understand it and optimise it. The key was to reveal...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW This is not a lesson in grammar but in motivation. In Dan Pink’s recent Pinkcast, he explains how to motivate yourself when you don’t feel like exercising. Michelle Segar’s work reveals that the words we use about exercise make a...
By Juliet Hammond, LIW Business Impact Consultant From ecosystems and the cloud, to teams and individuals, our research covers everyone this month. MIT Researchers sort through the myths and realities of ecosystems. HBR writers get excited about the opportunities of the Personal Learning Cloud, and we’re...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW Brexit continues to deliver terrible leadership examples that are hard to learn from so this week, an escape. Something soothing and personal. In 2017, I argued with a friend over Brexit. However dumb that sounds, I did. Time passed and my...
By Dan Hammond, Chief Disruption Officer, LIW We just dug out a 2010 TED Talk by Derek Sivers – you know, the shirtless dancing guy. It challenges the widely-held belief that sharing your goals makes you more likely to succeed. The research says that people who announce...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW Words count, particularly in times of crisis. Jacinta Arden, New Zealand’s youngest Prime Minister, earned worldwide respect for her empathic, decisive and inclusive human leadership following the deadly shootings in Christchurch. Her simple, unifying, calm words sought to reassure a shocked nation. “This...
By Pia Lee, CEO, LIW This weeks bleet comes to you from Silicon Valley. Fascinating and stimulating as ever but a new book by Dan Lyons casts a dark shadow on technology’s impact on working life He cites the example of two people working beside each other...