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Applying and Measuring Psychological Safety

When the environment is highly unpredictable teams need to adapt and move fast to survive and thrive and enabling the right communication norms and team culture is critical in supporting the kind of collaboration culture that generates high performance, adaptiveness and high energy. You can’t move fast when you have…

Neil PerkinJuly 13, 2020

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Dealing With Agile Team Dependencies

When scaling agile working and small multi-functional teams through the organisation we need to remove the barriers that prevent teams from progressing and learning quickly. An important part of this is being ruthless about keeping the team small. But we also need to ensure that teams have the necessary support and…

Neil PerkinJune 9, 2020

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The Ambidextrous Organisation

The concept of the 'ambidextrous organisation' was first described by Charles O'Reilly and Michael Tushman in their 2004 HBR piece as a way to capture the challenge inherent in businesses being able to make steady improvements to existing models whilst still developing breakthrough innovations. This, they said, was akin to…

Neil PerkinFebruary 12, 2019

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Moving Away From Strict Organisational Structure

There’s been a reasonable amount of focus over the last few years questioning the value of strict hierarchical structures in business and asking whether, particularly in the context of today’s digital-empowered and networked operating models, this traditional approach to organisation needs to change. It’s a good question to ask. Despite…

Neil PerkinDecember 30, 2018

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Workplace Culture

Workplace culture is intriguing, a few seem to have an opinion on it or trying to build it, maintain it or redefine it. Further below is a link to survey for some research we're doing into Workplace Culture if you'd like to contribute and get the report findings. We've now…

peter abrahamFebruary 27, 2018

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