‘It’s where he is now but it wasn’t what he planned.’ These words had been going around my head for weeks since I heard the Damon Albarn song ‘Mr Tembo’. Somehow it has particularly resonated as I was facing a not unexpected but nevertheless unsettling change in my...
I recently came across a very interesting article about Kaizen methods of change which led to me revisiting the concept of Kaizen and change. I have always understood Kaizen to be about facilitating change through small steps. In fact the original Kaizen approach, as...
Sitting here staring at my keyboard and wondering what to write in this weeks blog led me to a favourite topic of mine : brainstorming. Now we all know how to brainstorm don’t we? Well actually we don’t. There is far more to the topic than most of us acknowledge. For...
To quote Mintzberg whom I referenced in my last blogpost , ‘As Kierkegaard once observed, life is lived forward but understood backward. Managers may have to live strategy in the future, but they must understand it through the past’ At the point at which events happen...
As someone who is in the business of supporting others to change, I accept that the setting of goals is very important. However I am reminded, every time I set a goal, of the line from John Lennon’s song Beautiful Boy, ‘ Life is what happens while you are busy making...
