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Designing Organisations
6 August 2025
The Pie Is Fixed
Rethinking the Business Partner Role Through a Distributive Lens In negotiation theory, “distributive bargaining” is the classic win-lose scenario: a fixed pie, and everyone’s trying to grab the biggest slice.... Read more...
28 July 2025
Time-Blind Culture
The Hidden Threat to Business Performance In most organisations, time is the most overdrawn account. We talk about budgets, headcount, and KPIs, but rarely about time as a finite, strategic... Read more...
17 June 2025
Culture Starts at the Top
How Leaders Shape a Successful Organisational Culture Organisational culture isn’t just a set of values written on a wall; it’s the heartbeat of how people work, collaborate, and grow within... Read more...
19 February 2025
Lesson in Cost Management from a CFO & a highlighter
This week I came across an article from BCG that brought back a seminal learning experience for me. The article, and my experience, was about the importance of managing costs.... Read more...
3 July 2023
The Four As of Mutual Obligation
Too many meetings without decisions? People taking too many things ‘offline’? People feeling micro-managed yet execs say people aren’t making decisions and referring things up? What’s going on? In our... Read more...
8 October 2020
Working ‘flexmotely’ yet somehow working longer? That’s not right.
I’m hearing it from so many people, I can’t help but think something has gone wrong. Right now, many of us who can work ‘remotely’ from the office are. However,... Read more...
1 October 2020
Doing (Virtual) Organisation Design with the right Technology
Organisation design can be challenging at the best of times. Through a continuous process of learning and refining, we’ve developed a proven method that we apply in organisation design projects... Read more...
12 March 2020
Successful Change: You don’t need to be Einstein . . .
You’ve probably seen the quote, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results”, words widely credited to Albert Einstein. It’s almost the... Read more...
11 December 2019
What Can You Get Fired For?
While it’s not a great dinner party conversation starter, that question has become a key tool in our work in organisation design, recruiting and performance management. Once again though, it’s... Read more...
2 December 2019
‘We’re too busy to do that right now’.
“To do two things at once is to do neither.” Publilius Syrus Put your hand up if competitive, financial, regulatory, shareholder, technological, environmental or political disruption is making your organisation... Read more...
