Failure. It’s not a four-letter word but it’s still a dirty word in many places. From this starting point, we could explore attitudes towards failure and the importance of psychological safety as a key cultural element. But we won’t. Instead, let’s explore why failure happens. In the September 18, 2018 edition of Forbes, Harvard professor…
For most of human existence, change happened slowly. For generations people hunted and foraged, or later farmed the land or kept animals. Not much changed. But that’s far from our experience today. We count change in years, not millennia. But why has this happened? It has happened because of memes. Memes (coined by Richard Dawkins)…
We often think of the culture of an organisation as ‘the way we do things around here’ or ‘the way things are’. Culture seems to convey some sort of reality – the reality of how things are. One possibility among many But just think for a moment about ‘how things are’. Sure, what we see…
