Reputation is what people say about you when you are not in the room Building on pt. 1 (which is here ), I am interested in the stories...

I appear to have a bit of a reputation. I first starting using the tagline “the right kind of fly in the ointment” nearly eight years...

By Mike Jones and Steve Hearsum Organisations are obsessed with speed, so too is the rhetoric of change. A quick search reveals...

Reflecting upon the relationship between hope and organizational change arising out of reading Steve Hearsum’s No Silver Bullet . Image...

For centuries, the dominant archetype that underpins our conception of leadership has remained unchanged. It is that of the ‘hero’: the...

One of the ways in which people like me – consultants – increase our profile and generate work is, apparently, through writing or...

I don’t do away days. If I get asked by a client if I will facilitate or design one, my response is typically no. Not unless we can talk...

In December 2021, the UK’s financial watchdog, the FCA, fined HSBC £64 million for money laundering failures. It “highlighted three key...

It’s rare that I hear a client say something like “the last big change we went through was a great success”; or “change in our...

In recent years organisations large and small have embarked on the quest for greater agility, often at the exhortation of senior leaders...