Organisational Culture Pandemic
Your culture isn’t broken. It’s been spreading. By the time your engagement survey flags the damage, transmission has already been occurring for months. Think about the most capable person on your team right now. The one who joined full of ideas and genuine confidence. Notice what’s changed. Have they started hedging their language? Stopped […]
Neurodivergence and Workplace Design
A translational neuroscientist at the Queensland Brain Institute said something to me a few weeks ago I haven’t been able to shake. If everybody was neurotypical, we would still be in caves having parties, because it is the neuro-spicy ones that push the world forward. That was Dr Susannah Tye, Ph.D., and she said it […]
Don’t Let Your Brain Boss You Around
A conversation with one of our Advanced Diploma students recently changed the way I have been thinking about something I thought I understood. This student was generous enough to share a personal experiment with the cohort. Every spare moment of the day had been filled with content. Podcasts on the walk, articles on the commute, […]
HEAD OF EMPLOYEE EXPERIENCE AND SAFETY
We have all heard the saying that culture eats strategy for breakfast. Have we been naming the role responsible for it after the wrong thing? Culture is a lag indicator. It is the accumulated outcome of thousands of interactions, decisions, and daily experiences that have already happened. You cannot manage it directly any more than […]
Graduate Impact Post: The Brain Does Not Clock Off
Last week I shared something vulnerable on this page. I told you I was worried about whether my attempts to change the world one brain at a time are having the impact I am hoping for, and I asked you to tell me I was not alone in this. You did not let me be […]
Consuming to Belong
Helena Day left a comment this week that I have been turning over ever since. I had posted about the brain’s need for quiet and the cost of constant content consumption, and she wrote: sometimes we consume not because we want to learn, but because everyone around us is consuming and we want to stay […]
Leadership Development Is Broken
I have been writing about why leadership development is broken for 14 years. The workforce is more burned out now than when I started. I am not immune to the challenges we are all facing and I feel like I am drowning in a wave of exhaustion. When we feel exhausted our brain does what […]
Junk Food for the Brain
One of my students joined a study call and told us he had an addiction, though not the kind you’d expect from a leadership professional. He called it junk food for the brain. Every morning walk with headphones in, every commute with another article queued up, always reaching for the next piece of content in […]
The In-Group Signal
I have sat in rooms where I could see it on people’s faces, and I am sure you know the moment I am describing. The decision gets made, the values on the wall say one thing, what just happened says another, and nobody says a word. Not because they don’t care or lack courage, but […]
The Meeting Tax
You scheduled a 60-minute meeting with 10 people. Here’s what you actually spent. Tools now exist that calculate the real-time cost of meetings as they happen. A ticking counter that converts collective salary time into dollars. Leaders who have seen the number describe the same reaction: they had no idea. A 45-minute meeting with 10 […]