Employee skill decluttering
In the corporate world, over the years, an organisation goes through lots of changes including the shuffling of leaders, who come with different backgr…
Leading Change
Innovation is the wrong answer
The way we define and think about innovation is wrong. Can innovation exist in its own right, for example, without the need for a financial return …
Designing unique workshops is hard work
Understanding innovation requires a deep awareness- through a variety of tailored or purpose-designed workshops, dialogues or discovery trips you can…
A carnival of trivial ideas
Management leaders and innovators are celebrated across the world for being thought leaders and setting the pace in creating the future. This does ho…
How NOT to change someone’s behaviour
Behavioural shifts are temporary and short-lived at best - have you crashed and burned by using one of these tactics? There is a better way of enacting…
Three tips for working longevity
Did you know a modern degree lasts you about five years before it's completely irrelevant? How will you adapt to the new realities of the virtual work…
Simultaneous continuity and change
Is the future known or unknown? What causes an organization to move into the future? When transformative change occurs, what exactly is changing? …
The great management swindle
Corporate performance, whether it be success or failure, is incredibly difficult to quantify. Innumerable business books, case studies and articles c…
In the past jobs were about muscles, now it is about brains, in future it will be about heart
We need a new breed of worker - an intoxicating hybrid blending the very best of social skills (influence, persuasion, EQ, teaching others) with proces…
The currency of the 21st century
Why should you care about trust in the workplace? Because if trust is not given attention and a culture of distrust start to form, it has the power …
Failing to Succeed
Despite a flurry of business books offering the entrepreneur advice on how to succeed, failure is the single most important goal. Being successful in l…
The Ivory Tower
Since the invention of the modern university in the 12th century, higher education institutions have always responded to fundamental changes in socie…
Transformation without predictive analytics
A crisis always transforms the “how” and the “what to some extent”. To which extent will organisations transform the “how” to meet the “what for” and…
Practising adaptive leadership
If we want to avoid endless hardship, conflict and ecological catastrophes, we must become ecologically literate – and deeply so. The future is, you mi…
Getting out in front of change: The champion’s role in innovation
The best innovation in the world may be left to die on the vine if an organisation is not ready to take the risk required to accept and implement it. I…
Servant leadership’s role in driving change
Servant leadership is an effective means to motivate, influence and transform. The servant leader's emphasis on other's well-being bolsters success rat…
Tallest towers and endless seas: The motivating power of visionary purpose
It’s the job of a good leader to remind people of the big picture. But why do so many companies fail to translate their guiding principles into action?…
Change and culture – the new competitive advantage
Change is happening faster, it’s more complex and far reaching than ever, yet the failure rate of organisational change is around 80% . In this busy an…
Towards meta intelligence
The world as we know it is changing rapidly. There is no getting back to the old. In this thought piece Ron Immink unpacks the lessons from a book call…
The fool on the hill
Just because a story is accepted as factual by a majority of people, does not make it the truth. Some research on Covid-19 indicated we were being sold…